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Where did the original ideas come from, if every author is just compiling pre-existing ideas from other authors?


It isn't that there is no original work in using the existing sources. Just more stuff is, by necessity, re-used that created (otherwise people wouldn't understand you), and the exact boundary is arbitrary.




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