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Revelation34 posted...

A thesis would be written so yes that is physical. You can't actually steal ideas by definition. Copyright infringement is copying while actual theft is taking.

A thesis is less the piece of paper than it is the ideas behind the paper being stolen. And clearly you can steal ideas by definition, because the definition of stealing is taking somebody that doesn't belong to you.

In fact, when I google "stealing," the dictionary result that comes up literally includes the following:

dishonestly pass off (another person's ideas) as one's own.
"accusations that one group had stolen ideas from the other were soon flying"

So I'm not entirely sure what definitions you're relying upon.

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