The major difference between the original and the revised version is that the reviewers listed an extraordinary quantity of literature that "at a minimum" had to be cited and integrated into the argument!
There they are! Ten (10) whole books, seven (7) chapters from books, and ten (10) papers, (one recommended by the editor), 27 references in all! And there's my notebook in the foreground with 138 pages of hand-written notes from all the books in that stack!
Of course there was zero overlap between the "absolutely essential" literature recommended by the two reviewers! This kind of shot-gun citation demand is a defense mechanism used by reviewers who disapprove of a paper but cannot articulate their objections, so they just rattle off all this literature to discourage resubmission. You can tell that there is a problem when they don't bother to mention which issues in those works need to be addressed! But I got all this crap from the library, and spent MONTHS poring through it all. Most of it was (surprise surprise!) totally irrelevant, but I managed to CITE IT ALL ANYWAYS! And what will happen now? Of course the reviewers will now complain that the paper is too long!
I made the most of this reviewer hazing ritual by writing a whole new section in the paper called "A History of the Epistemological Debate" in which I follow the tortured history of the epistemological question, documenting the powerful human inclination to favor a naive realist view. This section is rather interesting, and when this paper gets finally rejected (as it almost certainly will!) I will submit this section alone as a review article someplace.
Of course this review of the epistemological question required reference to a list of my own list of citations, which included at the end of this page. Here is the full list of references demanded by the reviewers.
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There gentlemen, is that enough references for you?