Ship of Theseus

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The Ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus's Paradox, is a paradox and common thought experiment about whether an object (in the most common stating of the paradox, a ship) is the same object after having all of its original components replaced with others over time.

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Image: Ship outline by Yosemite, edited and coloured by Belbury, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.