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>Now scientists have used mathematical techniques to compare patterns in the “social networks” of characters in Ossian with those in two key Irish stories – and
by zetalyrae 3y ago
>Now scientists have used mathematical techniques to compare patterns in the “social networks” of characters in Ossian with those in two key Irish stories – and discovered they are almost a perfect match, virtually ending any remaining debate.
Seems like a flimsy argument, irrespective of the other evidence.
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- jhbadger 3y agoNot really. If I write a series of stories about Herlock Solmes and his friend Dr. Wohn Jatson and everything maps up one-to-one with the Sherlock stories, it's pretty clear I copied them even if I changed the names. Or to give a real example, consider the famous silent movie "Nosferatu". While it was theoretically about a vampire named Count Orlock being visited at his castle by a lawyer named Thomas Hutter and how Orlock ends up moving to Hutter's city and attacking his family, it is pretty obviously the story of Count Dracula and Jonathan Harker, and the widow of Dracula's author sued the makers over it.
- munchler 3y agoYes, but you don't need a social network graph for the cases you describe. As you say, they're obviously the same story with some names changed. This article seems to claim that two stories had the same social graphs, but weren't obviously the same story. I find that a bit hard to believe.
- justrealist 3y agoEven if they were, how would they know the Irish stories weren't derivative?