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The Ship of Theseus, ... [13] and Trigger's broom, [14] [15] where an old axe or broom has had both its head and its handle replaced, leaving no original components. ...
A regular at the Nag's Head pub, and old friend of Del Boy, Trigger is a road sweeper - looking after a 20 year-old broom that is an example of the Ship of Theseus paradox - and also engages in trading and petty thefts. Trigger speaks in a slow, monotone voice, and is very simple-minded, although affable and warm-hearted.
S. is a 2013 novel written by Doug Dorst and conceived by J. J. Abrams.The novel is unusual in its format, presented as a story within a story.It is composed of the novel Ship of Theseus (by a fictional author), hand-written notes filling the book's margins as a dialogue between two college students hoping to uncover the author's mysterious identity and the novel's secret, plus loose ...
Ship of Theseus page mentions Trigger's Broom and "Trigger" of course links here, but there's no reference to his broom on this page. 147.78.5.38 18:08 ...
Ship of Theseus, the ship Theseus rode on his trip to kill Minotaur. He set off with a black sail, promising to his father, Aegeus , that if successful he would return with a white sail. Theseus forgot to put up the white sails instead of the black ones, however, so Aegeus, believing his son was dead, committed suicide by throwing himself into ...
Neurath's boat (or Neurath's ship) is a simile used in anti-foundational accounts of knowledge, especially in the philosophy of science. It was first formulated by Otto Neurath . It is based in part on the Ship of Theseus which, however, is standardly used to illustrate other philosophical questions, to do with problems of identity . [ 1 ]
For the philosophical question of the ship's identity, see Ship of Theseus.) After the reforms of Cleisthenes, a ship was named for each of the ten tribes that political leader had created; these ships may also have been sacred ships. [4] Another known sacred ship was the Theoris (θεωρίς), a trireme kept for sacred embassies. [5]
We can call this mereological inessentialism. But mereological inessentialism means that a table would survive replacement or loss of any of its parts. By successive replacement we could change the parts of the table so in the end it would look like a chair. This is the Ship of Theseus paradox. Because it is difficult to justify a clearly ...