 One can say that in the first conjunct, \(A\) and \(B\) refer to books (absolutely the same book), whereas in the second conjunct, \(A\) and \(B\) refer to (absolutely distinct) copies. But the alleged duality of books and copies of books is unparsimonious and the relativist is not committed to it. There is no reason to concede to the philosopher that we do not actually purchase or read books; instead we purchase and read only copies of books. Any copy of a book is just as much the “book itself” as is any other copy. Any copy of a book is the same book as any other copy. Nelson Goodman once remarked that “Any accurate copy of a poem is as much the original work as any other” (Goodman 1968). Goodman was not suggesting that the distinction between poem and copy collapses. If it does collapse, however, we have an explanation of why any accurate copy is as much the original work as any other: any such copy is the same work as any other.