Oscar_Cunningham comments on Wrong Questions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: kremlin 31 May 2012 09:22:06PM 6 points [-]

Some people were talking about The Ship of Theseus -- the question "If a ship's parts are replaced one-by-one over time, after each part is replaced is it still the same ship?" First thing that came to my mind was that this was a wrong question. I saw it fundamentally as the same mistake as the Blegg/Rube problem -- they know every property about the ship that's relevant to the question, and yet still there feels like a question left unanswered.

Am I right about this?

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 31 May 2012 09:49:33PM 5 points [-]

Yep.