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Ideas for 'Philosophical Fragments', 'The Powers Metaphysics' and 'Cratylus'

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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 7. Indiscernible Objects

13788	If we made a perfect duplicate of Cratylus, there would be two Cratyluses [Plato]
	Full Idea: Soc: Suppose we made a duplicate of everything you have and put it beside you; would there then be two Cratyluses, or Cratylus and an image of Cratylus? Crat: It seems to me, Socrates, that there would be two Cratyluses.
	From: Plato (Cratylus [c.377 BCE], 432c)
	A reaction: Don't think that science fiction examples are a modern development in philosophy. Plato has just invented the Startrek transporter. The two Cratyluses are the two spheres in Max Black's famous example.