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At first, I thought Ahab's Leg Dilemma might ask something like if a person replaces parts of their body with whalebone, at what point, if any, does that person
by u32480932048 3y ago
At first, I thought Ahab's Leg Dilemma might ask something like if a person replaces parts of their body with whalebone, at what point, if any, does that person stop being the original person?
- AdmiralAsshat 3y agoYou may be thinking of Theseus' Ship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
- u32480932048 3y agoYeah, that's what I was riffing off of, being too unoriginal to come up with my own ;)
- 5040 3y agoA related problem is the 'sorites paradox'. >A typical formulation involves a heap of sand, from which grains are removed individually. With the assumption that removing a single grain does not cause a heap to become a non-heap, the paradox is to consider what happens when the process is repeated enough times that only one grain remains: is it still a heap? If not, when did it change from a heap to a non-heap?
- Joker_vD 3y agoThings don't really have objectively defined, innate identities, so we may introduce whatever definition (or definitions) of identity we find most useful in practical applications.