Day: August 7, 2016

Cryptomnesia

via the Wiki Jung gives the following example in Man and His Symbols.[17]Friedrich Nietzsche’s book Thus Spoke Zarathustra includes an almost word for word account of an incident also included in a book published about 1835, half a century before Nietzsche wrote. This is considered to be neither purposeful plagiarism nor pure coincidence: Nietzsche’s sister…

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