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Originally Posted by exZACHly
Take any specific make and model of car for example obv all built the same, but more than one exist.
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That will be making "Theseus' ship"a kind of a thing rather than a particular thing. The make and model of a car is a kind of a thing of which there can be more than one of, just like a "rapper on LetsBeef" is a kind of a thing. There are many rappers on LetsBeef. However, there is only one exZACHly; that is a lot more specific. "Theseus' ship" is a specific thing of which there can only be one of.
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Originally Posted by Rant
They are both correct.
While Theseus is in possession of the aluminum ship, the materials from which the ship in the museum was made, were at a previous time the ship on which Theseus sailed.
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Originally Posted by ILLoKWENT
Both are correct.. with the exception that the museum has the 'original' theseus. And the commissioned theseus is nothing more than a remodeled version.. and as long as the museum has 'all' the original pieces put together perfectly .its the same ship.. older version..
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Saying they are both "Theseus' ship" violates the Law of Identity, a rule of logic which states that “each thing is the same with itself and different from another.” That "Theseus' ship" as a specific thing would be in two places at the same time is extremely counterintuitive. It isn't a subatomic particle undergoing quantum entanglement, for example, and one ship obviously does not equal the other; they are made of two entirely different materials and are in two different places.