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> abolished patents

> How is patenting combination of spices going to increase innovation?

I'm sorry, but you seem to have jumped from "patents" to "patenting combinations of spices" here. I don't think that you did this intentionally, but you replaced the topic in between; first, you formulate your thesis as "we should abolishing patents", and later, you seem to be proving it, but you really only prove a different thesis, "we should abolish patenting combination of spices".

Don't you see the difference between these two?



Err, this is called exemplification. It is a common rhetorical device. Really this could have done with any patent, which all need to go.


With any? Really?




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