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Other philosophy communities have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. [ x ]
"I thunk it so I dunk it." - Descartes
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If you gradually remove all the bits of the ship and make a new ship out of all the bits you replaced, which ship would be the original?
Neither. It was never the bits that made the ship, but the ship that was made from the bits gathered along the way
that's an "oh fuck off" question because you can't actually do that. Wearing parts would be dust, a broken board would still be broken, etc and an "all the replaced parts" reconstitution wouldn't hold its shape.
You are injecting the idea that bits are broken into the thought experiment
no, that's what happens when wood rots.
No part of the original question necessarily indicates any wood has rotted, you added that
Edit: no wait, I see. Some internet random in 2003 added that. Either way it's not a fundamental part of the thought experiment