If it doesn't, it contains no discovery and merely reproduces the already known and familiar.
"We argue that these men are merely reproducing exaggerated forms of behaviour that are expected of them and that they expect of themselves in a pocket of available time to celebrate," it said.
He points out -- duh! -- that "painters do not merely reproduce; they select and highlight," and he complains that life, unlike art, tends to be filled "with repetitions, misleading emphases and inconsequential plot lines".
Those who do not have compelling content, or are merely reproducing commodity information — that is, information that can easily be found elsewhere — are not going to generate much traction.
As in Ozu's films, Oshima offers a severely critical view of traditional culture and technological innovation alike, but, unlike Ozu's world, Oshima's film acknowledges no substrate of warmth, tenderness, or family feeling; the family merely reproduces, in miniature, society's relentless battles for money, power, and advantage.
For economists such as Sam Jackson, however, a former Sirleaf ally-turned-critic, the government is merely reproducing the kind of plantation economy that, since the founding of Liberia in the mid-nineteenth century, has enriched elites and led to three decades of conflict.
That News Corporation has chosen to buy an unusual site where users create the content shows that the company is not merely reproducing itself online, but thinking differently about the future of the internet.Since May 2005 the number of people who visit MySpace.com each month has grown from 16m to 27m, and 150,000 people are registering each day.
Another frequent objection against theories like CRTT, originally voiced by Wittgenstein and Ryle, is that they merely reproduce the problems they are supposed to solve, since they invariably posit processes such as following rules or comparing one thing with another that seem to require the very kind of intelligence that the theory is supposed to explain.
Audience members know the material so well because half the humor comes from merely reproducing every ludicrous plot twist and trope from the TV show (including Zack's giant cellphone, Becky the Duck and other allusions that will be familiar to longtime fans).
But Cohen does not merely reproduce Kant's doctrine.
