Ooo you just unlocked the whole thing for me. According the basic tenets of modern Standpoint theory (and really post-enlightenment empiricism more generally),

Ooo you just unlocked the whole thing for me. According the basic tenets of modern Standpoint theory (and really post-enlightenment empiricism more generally), any technical idea or expression only has meaning in the author’s particular linguistic/professional/intellectual context — in their “standpoint”. So our attempt to apply capitalist property notions to ideas fails from the jump, because our whole culture treats ideas as fallible individual beliefs, not eternal divine forms. Silly capitalist IP lawyers from the past few hundred years, their whole epistemic framework is inconsistent. Somebody should tell them, I’m sure they’d about face…