On Creativity

One man’s creative leap can be the same for another, so long as the next man was unaware of the last man’s actions. As Nozick put it:

“It is trite to say that everything is like everything else in some respects, perhaps highly artificial ones, and different in others. Whether we call something new and different will depend in part on what pigeonholes of classification we actually have. Does it fall into the same category as previously known things or require a new category of its own?”