Some people were talking about The Ship of Theseus—the question “If a ship’s parts are replaced one-by-one over time, after each part is replaced is it still the same ship?” First thing that came to my mind was that this was a wrong question. I saw it fundamentally as the same mistake as the Blegg/Rube problem—they know every property about the ship that’s relevant to the question, and yet still there feels like a question left unanswered.
Some people were talking about The Ship of Theseus—the question “If a ship’s parts are replaced one-by-one over time, after each part is replaced is it still the same ship?” First thing that came to my mind was that this was a wrong question. I saw it fundamentally as the same mistake as the Blegg/Rube problem—they know every property about the ship that’s relevant to the question, and yet still there feels like a question left unanswered.
Am I right about this?
Yep.