I don’t understand this Philosophy question and need help to study.
Do you think that in this scenario the car persists or not? What if all the old parts of the car are kept somewhere, at are then used to build a car? Is the original car you started with identical to the car whose parts have been replaced or is it identical to the car that was built from all the old parts that composed your car when you first bought it? Write 2-3 paragraphs (max. 500 words) answering these questions; start by first describing the problem in your own words.
This story is a version of The Ship of Theseus. This is a famous paradox (also called Theseus’s paradox) in which the same scenario happens to Theseus’s ship: the planks of the ship are removed and replaced one by one. And the ship remains functional throughout the process. Is the ship at the end of the process identical to the ship that Theseus started with? One is inclined to say yes. However, the scenario is complicated by adding the following twist: the old planks were not destroyed, but stored somewhere and at the end of the process, they are used to build a ship that looks and functions exactly like the one Theseus started his journey with. Which of the ships is the original ship?
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