User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-45314928-20200606025128/@comment-6032121-20200607201210

As we have repeatedly pointed out, B being different from C remains true even if you think C is just an extract from B.

That is to say, even if B existed, there would remain an epistemological difference between "the unfinished project of the full Monk-as-Rasputin story told in the form of a novelisation", and "the fully-written out first page thereof".

Let's say we're a pair of paleontologists arguing about the Piltdown Man. It seems to me that whether or not we think a full Piltdown Man corpse ever existed, there remains a difference between "the skull I'm actually holding in my hands right now", and "the complete skeleton some people claim it once belonged to".