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I've already seen/heard that premise, though not in that particular book. I think my husband said it in regards to guitar riffs..."there's only so many notes, and they only go together so many ways". I've also thought it in regards to doctoral dissertations...isn't that the one you have to write "an original contribution to human knowledge" ? (I'm glad I'm not even getting close to a doctorate!)
The university I am enrolled in has several failsafe procedures to detect and discourage student plagiarism. Not that I'm condoning plagiarism by any means, but the thought has crossed my mind that there's only so many things that can be written on a single subject, and what if my thoughts happen to mirror someone else's?
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