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Identity over time

What makes something the same thing as it changes - the puzzle of the Ship of Theseus, whose every plank gets replaced.

Depth 1 · Foundation

You can explain the Ship of Theseus and Hobbes's second ship, and why the parts and the story point to different answers.

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    Foundation

    You can explain the Ship of Theseus and Hobbes's second ship, and why the parts and the story point to different answers.

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    Two kinds of samenessThe Ship of Theseus asks whether the repaired ship is the same one, not whether it is exactly alike.

Your path here

What's still between you and Identity over time, depth 1, in the order you can learn it.

  1. 1Good reasonsDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  2. 2EvidenceDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  3. 3PredictionDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  4. 4ClaimDepth 1 · Foundation · Logic
  5. 5ArgumentDepth 1 · Foundation · Logic
  6. 6Conditional statementsDepth 1 · Foundation · Logic
  7. 7ObservationDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  8. 8PerceptionDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  9. 9ObservationDepth 2 · Deeper · Philosophy of Science
  10. 10HypothesisDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  11. 11PredictionDepth 2 · Deeper · Philosophy of Science
  12. 12Testing against the worldDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  13. 13What science can't answerDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  14. 14Questions about what is realDepth 1 · Foundation · Metaphysics
  15. 15Things and their propertiesDepth 1 · Foundation · Metaphysics
  16. 16Two kinds of samenessDepth 1 · Foundation · Metaphysics
  17. 17Identity over timeDepth 1 · Foundation · Metaphysics

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