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Old 2011-01-04, 14:54   Link #21221
Judoh
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Originally Posted by Rias View Post
What if there was Sakutaro to being with, but Rosa added the scarf to make it unique for Maria? Could you argue that Rosa "made" "new Sakutaro", and it's one and only in the entire world?
Yes you can. It's called the Ship of theseus paradox. Another name for this paradox is called Locke's socks. It basically says if you try and fix something enough you can view it as something completely different even if it's essentially the same object.

@Cao: Yup.
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