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That's interesting, and it reinforces my point. If "patent"
originally meant "obvious," that etymological bit of knowledge helps
not at all in deducing that in the US today, a "patent" is awarded
only for something that's not obvious.
Really, don't we all agree here that etymology doesn't tell you what aIndeed.
word means?
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