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Did you just decide to blatantly ignore the first 6 words of your quote?

• kahirsch 12y ago
  I think the sentence is pretty clear. It's using a limited-time monopoly in order to promote the progress of science and the useful arts. There is nothing here about promoting "disclosure of how to make things". That notion doesn't even make sense when it comes to "authors". What historical evidence is there that the "real purpose was to promote disclosure of how to make things"?
  • Yen 12y ago
    What exactly is the state of the Sciences and Useful Arts, except the accumulated knowledge of how things work, and how things are made?
    • magicalist 12y ago
      "Progress" is also new inventions. There is no requirement for public disclosure anywhere in that clause. As I said, that came later.