From Philosophical Research
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When two people have information, everybody has it
Characteristics in draft
Properties
- alias (en)
- When information is available to a few people, it's available to everyone
- When two people know something, everybody knows it
- printing press fallacy
- QID references
- printing press
- approximate historical date
- color swatch references
- Existentialist-Structuralist tradition
- Lacanianism
- [S2] Information cannot reach a "collective unconscious" without communication
- instance of
- Difference-Existentialist model?
- physically-incorrect statement
- physically-incorrect statement which would be correct if framed differently
- prototype notes
- dreadfully common in every single discussion of "culture" and "prejudice". in fact, it's vastly more common to find people who believe this than people who don't. but, it's demonstrably untrue in the physical world. all you have to do is locate somebody who has never head a thing and you've shown that information doesn't spread instantaneously.
