Hi Scott: And I would guess that if it were discovered that PhD theses had been submitted at roughly the same time in two different universities on essentially the same History of Science topic, with coincidentally very similar content and conclusions, there would be some reason to bring the F-word into play even in the faculty lounge(s)! :-) Cheers Brian Randell On 27 Jun 2014, at 13:03, Scott Guthery <sbg@acw.com> wrote:
Patents and copyrights are regularly adjudicated on firstness. 'First' would thus seem to be a recognized state of being at least outside of the faculty lounge.
Cheers, Scott
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