Identical text can differ in originality depending on authorial context.
Evidence
Borges’s stories include “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,” which imagines a twentieth-century writer who reproduces Don Quixote word for word, claiming his version is more original than Cervantes’s because of the historical distance traveled. The story is, in IP terms, a perfect philosophical detonator of the originality requirement and the idea/expression distinction. — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 2029
Categorization
- DEFINE: The passage crystallizes the originality requirement and idea/expression distinction through Menard’s thought experiment.
- SEED: An essay angle: Menard’s reproduction of the Quixote as the philosophical template for machine reproduction of training text.
- XREF: connects to: Context alters the meaning of identical phrases in a confession — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 268; Audiences can decode the same message in a globally contrary or oppositional way; When reproduction overwhelms originality, authorship itself becomes a scarce resource. — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 524 (+6 more)
Related
- An author’s absorbed influences differ from their own original philosophy (similarity 0.87)
- Medieval writers copied well-phrased passages as reusable tools rather than seeking originality (similarity 0.84)
- Identical terms can mask different concepts, so concepts must be traced to their sources. (similarity 0.81)
Broader Connections
- Context alters the meaning of identical phrases in a confession
#exemplifies(0.85) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 268 - Audiences can decode the same message in a globally contrary or oppositional way
#exemplifies(0.80)