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No mention of the accidental creation of two William Thomas Rikers? > If, however, we destroy the ship but mail its blueprints somewhere else and then build a
by dghf 9y ago
No mention of the accidental creation of two William Thomas Rikers?
> If, however, we destroy the ship but mail its blueprints somewhere else and then build a new, identical ship, it’s not the same ship. It’s a separate ship built from the same blueprints. It doesn’t even matter whether you use the same planks or not. [Emphasis added.]
The last sentence implies that something designed to be repeatedly disassembled and reassembled is a different object on each assembly. That doesn't sound right.