question: Why did James T. Costa think the larger , abandoned book would not have been as successful ?
answer: would have been encumbered by scholarly footnotes and much more technical detail
turker_answer: James T. Costa thought the larger , abandoned book would not have been as successful because it would have been encumbered by scholarly footnotes and much more technical detail .
rule-based: James T. Costa thought the larger , abandoned book would not have been as successful because would have been encumbered by scholarly footnotes and much more technical detail .