If you take away and replace parts of a boat one by one, at what point does it no longer become the same boat? Will it still be the same ship when all the parts are replaced?
And, if all the original parts are reorganized into the exact same configuration as before, which boat is the original?
Well, it's the one with all the replacement parts. This is because the very question is a matter of identity, which is projected onto the original ship, even while the parts are being replaced, and up to when the last original piece goes.
The second boat constructed from the original pieces is a new boat. It doesn't get to have the identity of the original anymore. That ship has sailed.
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Just a kid that rants
I figured out the Ship of Theseus paradox.
If you take away and replace parts of a boat one by one, at what point does it no longer become the same boat? Will it still be the same ship when all the parts are replaced?
And, if all the original parts are reorganized into the exact same configuration as before, which boat is the original?
Well, it's the one with all the replacement parts. This is because the very question is a matter of identity, which is projected onto the original ship, even while the parts are being replaced, and up to when the last original piece goes.
The second boat constructed from the original pieces is a new boat. It doesn't get to have the identity of the original anymore. That ship has sailed.
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