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Social Contract (Wikipedia)

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Wikipedia article on the social contract, used here for its account of Hobbes, Rousseau and the origin of the term in the 1762 book The Social Contract. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Publisher
Wikipedia
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract
Source Type
Encyclopedia
Reliability Tier
3
Sources
Social Contract (Wikipedia)
Claims Backed By This Source (7 claims)

This source backs 7 claims across the atlas. As facts: 6 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Sources, 4 claims: 4 well-attested.
  • Schools of Philosophy, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.

Well-attested

6

Schools of Philosophy

General References

1

Schools of Philosophy

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