We may come into the world with inherent knowledge, but the nature of this has always been a great topic for debate. What we do know is that we can build on the work of others, but must do so ethically! Thomas Jefferson once said in a letter to Isaac McPherson on August 13, 1813: “If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me…” I wrote a piece on this in 2016, but it seems you have to sign into LinkedIn to retrieve it. Here is the piece: PlagiarismArticleFeb2014
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Emanations Press
Emanations Press is a small publishing house registered in Connecticut. If you want a traditional publisher or editor check out Poets & Writers. Emanations Press is primarily interested in work licensed in The Creative Commons (CC), though we will co-author work and showcase authors who are partners in one way or another. Dave Rubin, a fellow auto aficionado, is our latest partner, facilitating the republishing of some of his articles at the site for the Valley Collector Car Club “Members Page”: “The Car of Tomorrow” and “The Durability Champ.” (My ‘29 Packard story is on this site.)
I produced this book (including cover design) Poems of Love and Loss, by Shalom Saada Saar, then of MIT, on Amazon. My poetry chapbook “Emanations of the Spirit” is on this site, and I’m working on two CC books, one of which is a multimedia project about the amazing Hartford CT arts renaissance of the ’70s. The other is a college textbook in the realm of epistemology or theory of knowledge for a new Eco-Civilization, that will also appeal to the general reader interested in self-education. It will include a Google Drive repository for more research.
I’ve produced a number of college alumni profiles booklets, including for Cambridge College, MA. The latest was for Pacific Oaks College, Pasadena. I also wrote the President’s Message. Pacific Oaks Alumni Profiles Brochure
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/52375840/this-booklet-pacific-oaks-college
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