Identity Over Time¶
Gallois, A., & Kurtsal, I. (2026). Identity Over Time. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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3 citations across 3 artifacts.
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Mechanisms¶
- Continuity Charter
- The image behind a good invariant is the Ship of Theseus
This sourcePresents the Ship of Theseus as a test of whether an object remains the same through replacement of its parts.
- The image behind a good invariant is the Ship of Theseus
- Identity Preservation Checklist
- The identity question is genuinely a Ship-of-Theseus problem
This sourceUses the Ship of Theseus to frame the contested identity of an object whose parts are replaced over time.
- The identity question is genuinely a Ship-of-Theseus problem
- Split/Merge Decision Tree
- Its failure mode is the persistence question a tree cannot escape: the Ship of Theseus problem has no purely mechanical answer
This sourcePresents the Ship of Theseus as a diachronic-identity puzzle with multiple competing accounts rather than a mechanically settled answer.
- Its failure mode is the persistence question a tree cannot escape: the Ship of Theseus problem has no purely mechanical answer
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