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> > To use a modern analogy, let's say that someone
> >writing a book writes a first draft, then substantially modifies his own
> >work in subsequent drafts, until he finally has a version that he wants to
> >send to a publisher.  Which is the "original text," the first draft or the
> >final, publishable version? 

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Consider even an ancient analogy. It has been recognized that much of what
we have of "Aristotle's Works" are actually the notes from which he
lectured, with an expansion added here or there by his students. What's
the original text?

Or, (as I mentioned in an earlier posting) what would be the original text
in one of Wittgenstein's books, a book which was pasted together by
some editor out of bits and pieces of lecture notes, letters, diaries,
etc. from his Nachlass?

Could not the Pentateuch also have been composed out of Moses' Nachlass?

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