It would first require a usable definition of “genuinely new” not susceptible to goalpost-shifting and that is actually useful for anything.
That was part of the joke in Anathem. Saunt Lora’s assertion had actually first been stated by Saunt X, but it also occurs in the pre-X writings of Saunt Y, and so on...
It would first require a usable definition of “genuinely new” not susceptible to goalpost-shifting and that is actually useful for anything.
That was part of the joke in Anathem. Saunt Lora’s assertion had actually first been stated by Saunt X, but it also occurs in the pre-X writings of Saunt Y, and so on...