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| 16157 | Insurance on the original ship would hardly be paid out if the plank version was wrecked! |
| Full Idea: No insurance company, presented with a policy written for 'Theoris' [the original ship] would pay for damages suffered if the ship contructed from the old planks had been shipwrecked. | |||
| From: Michael Frede (Individuals in Aristotle [1978]) | |||
| A reaction: A very nicely dramatic way of presenting what is taken to be the usual reading of the basic case - that the original identity tracks the continuity of the original structure, not the matter. |