Farm
place · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Farm the object
farm · farms · land · the farm analogy
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Economics
The agricultural estate where Ischomachus supervises work and combines exercise with economic oversight.
When I reach the farm, I may find planting, clearing, sowing or harvesting in progress.
After I have finished, the servant gives the horse a roll and leads him home, bringing with him from the farm anything we happen to want in the city.
If there is nothing pressing to be done in town, my servant leads my horse to the farm, and I make my walk by going to it on foot, with more benefit, perhaps, Socrates, than if I took a turn in the arcade.
The Law of Intellectual Property
A hypothetical farm used as an analogy for how an idea's owner can share possession without losing exclusive use.
Here plainly the owner’s right to the exclusive use of it, for industrial and pecuniary purposes, is no more impaired, than in the case of the farm.
The case of the owner of an idea, after he has given to others a knowledge or possession of it, in common with himself, is nearly or quite similar to that of a man, who should grant to others the perpetual, but naked, right, to come personally upon his farm, and enjoy the prospect, doing no damage, and offering no impediment to his labor;