Far worse than an error is *unconscious* plagiarism: you may repeat something not realizing someone else said it.
Once you detect that one of your … - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Far worse than an error is *unconscious* plagiarism: you may repeat something not realizing someone else said it.
Once you detect that one of your passages or aphorisms resembles someone else's, you MUST signal it (footnote), even if you came up with it independently.
Most are too embarrassed to do so.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.
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