Limits of Print Texts
One of the problems with printed text is the fact that the text is limited to the argument at hand. A paper version of this work would have a scope; there would points in my argument when I would like to go further on a particular subject than I can and still have a cohesive, coherent argument. I'm also limited by the amount of space I have to make the argument in. To have such a piece published in most journals, I have to get through my argument as efficiently as possible. Any long digression would likely take away from my argument and a reader might easily lose interest in my argument when I'm no longer arguing about the same topic. Readers will also lose interest when I try to put too many arguments within one piece. And I certainly can't put an entire primary work that I may have used part of in my piece; first, I would need the permission of the author to reprint the work, and second, I can't be sure that many of my readers, if any, will want to see the entirety of a work I've cited. The same holds true for digressions from the argument. Basically when I mention a topic that I can't, for the reasons I've just described, go into fully, I might simply say something like, "subject X deserves more explanation but such a discussion is outside the scope of this article."
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