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a) (in terms of forensic and criminal investigations): not to be confused with, and the exact opposite of, to invent.

b) (in terms of technological/medical/scientific progress): to use methods that have been used in the past (on issues that are no longer relevant in one's own society) to tackle modern issues
a) If you are a serial murderer you can be telling me your limo is triple parked all you want; you are not the brightest lightbulb in the chandelier. Forensic science is there to discover exactly what the 5 journalistic w's and 1h are in your specific case.

b) When you discover something, you are most likely using a long-ago invented, tried, and abandoned solution (to a past problem) to tackle modern issues; that being said, why can't we use methods such as corpse incineration, that have been tried during the Middle Ages on the Black Death, on the current Ebola epidemic?
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not to be confused with, and the exact opposite of, to invent.
If you are a habitual serial murderer you can be telling me your limo is triple parked all you bloody want; you are not the brightest lightbulb in the chandelier, contrary to what you may think of yourself. Forensic science is there to discover exactly what the 5 journalistic w's and h are in your specific case.
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not to be confused with, and the exact opposite of, to invent.
If you are a serial murderer you can be telling me your limo is triple parked all you bloody want; you are not the brightest lightbulb in the chandelier. Forensic science is there to discover exactly what the 5 journalistic w's and h are in your specific case.
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not to be confused with, and the exact opposite of, to invent.
If you are a serial murderer you can be telling me your limo is triple parked all you bloody want; you are not the brightest lightbulb in the chandelier. Forensic science is there to discover exactly what the 5 journalistic w's and 1h are in your specific case.
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a) (in terms of forensic and criminal investigations): not to be confused with, and the exact opposite of, to invent.

b) (in terms of technological/medical/scientific progress): to use methods that have been used in the past (on issues that are no longer relevant in one's own society) to tackle modern issues
in terms of definition a) forensic science is there to discover exactly what the 5 journalistic w's and 1h are in your specific case. For definition b) why can't we use methods such as corpse incineration, that have been tried during the Middle Ages on the Black Death, to discover a partial solution to the recent Ebola epidemic?
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