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It seems that in terms of natural language everybody knows what a fake, a forgery or false document is. At most, one admits that it is frequently difficult to recognize a forgery as such, but one relies on experts, that is, on those who are able to recognize forgeries simply because they know how to tell the difference between a fake and its original.
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Eco, U. (1992). The Original and the Copy. In: Varela, F.J., Dupuy, JP. (eds) Understanding Origins. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, vol 130. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8054-0_15
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