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CHEATING or PLAGERISM?

By Sadeyedlady (Sadeyedlady) on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 02:50 am: Edit

plagiarism.

but it depends on what kind of cheating.

By Foreignboy (Foreignboy) on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 07:37 am: Edit

Isn't plagiarism also a kind of cheating?

By Angstridden (Angstridden) on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 08:17 am: Edit

Plagerism is a form of cheating..but cheating is not necessarily plagerism. For example you can cheat by copying someone elses text and call it your own..thats plagerism and its a form of cheating. You can cheat by writing notes on your hand to use on a test. Thats cheating but not plagerism. Both are wrong. Which one is worse? It would depend on the circumstance. For example if Ms. America contestant cheats by using a push up bra to make herself look fuller..thats not as bad as the contestant who gives a speech where she quotes from other sources and does not give credit but acts like she wrote it.
So it all depends.

By Stanfordrulez (Stanfordrulez) on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 09:02 am: Edit

Both are equally bad.

By Libroschico (Libroschico) on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 08:15 pm: Edit

Not knowing how to spell "plagiarism."

By Cybernetica (Cybernetica) on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 09:23 pm: Edit

And yet in the great Kantian tradition I am compelled to ask...

By what ethical criterion shall we measure the severity of "worseness"?



-S

"That's a car coming."
"Relative to whom?"

By Shahab (Shahab) on Friday, February 27, 2004 - 11:22 am: Edit

Wouldn't that be the Socraitic method?

By Cybernetica (Cybernetica) on Saturday, February 28, 2004 - 10:26 pm: Edit

Actually, we need a dialectical construct...

Lighten up

Socratic method is appropriate for what I said in the general sense of asking the best "midwife" questions to get to the answer...

Its Kantian to me, primarily because it focuses on the relationship of rationalism (internal "reason") to empiricism (central perception), but also because it addresses the scope of worseness as a limited ethical issue, etc, etc...and I make fun of intersubjectivity along the way.

But this stuff is all too switchable anyway, much of what one great philosopher says is an incredibly eloquent and detailed rehash of what someone else has already said.

Anyway the joke (plus the post) was dead before I got here.

Unless you want to respond (which might be fun), I guess I should make my exit.

-S