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| 1212 | Replacing timbers on Theseus' ship was the classic illustration of the problem of growth and change |
| Full Idea: At intervals they removed old timbers from the preserved ship and replaced them with sound ones, so the ship became a classic illustration for the philosophers of the disputed question of growth and change, some saying it was the same, others different. | |||
| From: Plutarch (Life of Theseus [c.85], 23) |