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Copying the copiers

Perhaps if a student just coppied something word for word that would clearly be cheating, but actually we are all plagarists. We all copy eachother relentlessly - in fact its one of the key factors by which societies progress.

The purpose of schools and universities is primarily to encourage the copying of ideas from older generations to newer ones. Musicians regularly copy and sample eachother. Scientists base their ideas on those of others, even to the extent that they have to cite the articles from which they have coppied ideas in their papers. Isaac Newton famously said "If I have seen further than other men it was only because I was standing on the shoulders of giants".

It's sobering to consider that almost all the throughts I've had - or will ever have - will have been thought by some other person long before I was born.

- Bob

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Saturday 01 February, 06:11
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