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Categories: Ancient Greek logic, Identity (philosophy), Metaphors referring to ships, Philosophical paradoxes, Articles with short description
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Ship of Theseus  George Washington's axe  Locke's socks  Philosopher's Axe  The Philosopher's axe
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The Ship of Theseus is a thought experiment about whether an object which has had all of its original components replaced remains the same object. Wikipedia
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The Ship of Theseus is a thought experiment about whether an object which has had all of its original components replaced remains the same object. Wikipedia
Thought experiment concerning the continuity of identity of an item which has all its parts replaced Wikidata
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paradox
thought experiment
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Chomsky
Heraclitus
Hobbes
Locke
Plato
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Ship of Theseus
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identity
continuity
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Theseus
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ax
ship
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Ship of Theseus
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Ship of Theseus
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grandfather's axe, Theseus paradox

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