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Reiterative Occupancy

A drafter faces a sequence of illuminated doorways through which the same architectural plan passes until a later presenter receives the audience’s recognition.

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How Borrowed Thought Acquires a New Address

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Intellectual Phrogging names the sustained and insufficiently disclosed inhabitation of another person’s distinctive conceptual architecture, including the conversion of borrowed thought into authority and the displacement of the originator as the recognized knower. This essay isolates an audience-level mechanism inside that larger pattern. Reiterative Occupancy is defined as the cumulative shift in perceived provenance through which repeated, variably altered, and insufficiently attributed presentations of a distinctive conceptual architecture attach source recognition to a later presenter while weakening the audience’s connection between the thought and its documented originator.

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