Re: Plagiarism detection methods (was RE: [ProgSoc] (no subject))

[jedd <jedd@nospam.progsoc.org>]

On Friday 12 July 2002 22:17, David Shoon wrote:
 ] (Isn't everything previously taught plagiarising upon someone else's
 ] earlier work?)

 Read Plato's Protagoras and Meno.

 Specifically, Meno is a discourse (in the form of a dialogue) that
 argues all learning is in fact a recalling .. of memories and/or
 knowledge that was pre-extant (within the self).

 Personally I think Protogaros has a lot more going for it, and
 the method used to prove (sic) the point in Meno is way dodgy.

 I think it's quite feasible for people to spontaneously (for want
 of a better word) come up with complex or simple solutions to
 complex or simple problems.  It's possible for there to be similar
 solutions developed entirely independently of each other too.
 (Cite -- hedgehog .v. echidna)

 The trouble with the theory that everything is a copy .. is that
 it doesn't explain origin.  (Like so many of the new-age ersatz
 philosophical stances.)

 Jedd.

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