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The underlying concept is using other people's ideas as your own. It's coherent and there's good reason for using it in academia, and probably also in journalis
by dash2 3y ago
The underlying concept is using other people's ideas as your own. It's coherent and there's good reason for using it in academia, and probably also in journalism and creative writing.
- washadjeffmad 3y ago> other people's ideas How does ownership of ideas work again? And I don't mean citing sources when required, but the tracking and commodification of roots of experience external to existence in understanding. You've got to be trained in mental gymnastics to jump through those logical hoops.
- dash2 3y agoYou don't need mental gymnastics, and you don't need to believe that people can own ideas or that they should be commodified (though it's fine if you do). You just need to understand that people deserve credit for the ideas they came up with. This is particularly important for academics, who live or die by their ideas.
- burnished 3y agoThe piece that is incoherent is the self plagiarism. If it were just the reasonable bit you mention then there'd be no point in calling it out :)