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Alixtii · O'Krul's · Polling · Place
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Gakked from kindkit: Click on the box for any ships you like. They don't have to be OTPs--just ships you enjoy enough to be intereted in reading or writing stories about them.( many pairings under the cutCollapse ) |
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Philosophers have a paradox known as the Ship of Theseus problem: According to Greek legend as reported by Plutarch,The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned [from Crete] had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Demetrius Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their place, insomuch that this ship became a standing example among the philosophers, for the logical question of things that grow; one side holding that the ship remained the same, and the other contending that it was not the same.
Plutarch thus questions whether the ship would remain the same if it were entirely replaced, piece by piece. As a corollary, one can question what happens if the replaced parts were used to build a second ship. Which, if either, is the original Ship of Theseus?
Poll #1149732
Ship of Theseus
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 4
Which ship is the real original ship?
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| The one with continuity through time, but replaced materials. |
  1 (25.0%) |
| The one with the original materials. |
  0 (0.0%) |
| Both. |
  1 (25.0%) |
| Neither. |
  1 (25.0%) |
| The question is meaningless. |
  1 (25.0%) |
The human body goes through a similar process, discarding its cells over a period of seven years. If one creates a copy of John Smith using the old cells, which is the "real" John Smith?
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| The one with continuity through time, but new cells. |
  3 (75.0%) |
| The one constructed out of the old cells. |
  0 (0.0%) |
| Both. |
  0 (0.0%) |
| Neither. |
  0 (0.0%) |
| The question is meaningless. |
  1 (25.0%) |
We seem to have a philosophical paradox. The best way to resolve it is to:
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| Recognize that since one of the two items is the real one and the other is not, there is no paradox. |
  0 (0.0%) |
| Abandon some element of our identity-criteria. |
  0 (0.0%) |
| Revise classical logic. |
  1 (25.0%) |
| Recognize that talk of a "real original ship" or a "real John Smith" is meaningless. |
  2 (50.0%) |
| Something else, which I'll tell you in the comments. |
  1 (25.0%) |
Philosophical ticky box.
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| I refute you thus! *kicks stone* Ouch! |
  0 (0.0%) |
| Here is one hand! And here is another! And a couple of feet too. |
  0 (0.0%) |
| I ticky box, therefore I am. |
  2 (50.0%) |
| Ticky box! |
  1 (25.0%) |
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Poll #838017
Self-Referential Poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 5
alixtiipolls (please check all that apply)
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| Just get the sponsored account, man, no one will think less of you. |
  0 (0.0%) |
| No way am I coming here again! There be ads here! |
  0 (0.0%) |
| Stupid idea. No one is going to take a poll if they have to follow a link to get there. |
  0 (0.0%) |
| I wouldn't take a poll if I have to follow a link to get there, but others might, and power to you if they do. |
  0 (0.0%) |
| Following a link to a poll isn't really a big deal in the end. |
  0 (0.0%) |
| Do you really want to be able to do polls that much? *boggles* |
  0 (0.0%) |
| Are you really that cheap you won't pay for the paid account? |
  0 (0.0%) |
| Whatever you decide to do is fine with me; I won't be taking your polls no matter what. |
  0 (0.0%) |
| Whatever you decide to do is fine with me; I'll take your polls if you post them. |
  0 (0.0%) |
| I'll be friending this community. |
  0 (0.0%) |
| I'll follow your links from your journal, so I won't be friending this community. |
  0 (0.0%) |
alixtiipolls (Choose the one BEST answer.)
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| Just get the sponsored account, man, no one will think less of you. |
  0 (0.0%) |
| No way am I coming here again! There be ads here! |
  0 (0.0%) |
| Stupid idea. No one is going to take a poll if they have to follow a link to get there. |
  0 (0.0%) |
| I wouldn't take a poll if I have to follow a link to get there, but others might, and power to you if they do. |
  0 (0.0%) |
| Following a link to a poll isn't really a big deal in the end. |
  4 (100.0%) |
"How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth?"
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| I wrote it. |
  0 (0.0%) |
| I wrote my thesis on it. |
  0 (0.0%) |
| I can totally hook you up with a copy. |
  0 (0.0%) |
| I've read it and have wonderful thinky thoughts about it. |
  0 (0.0%) |
| I've read it. |
  0 (0.0%) |
| I can explain its significance to 20th century literary criticism. |
  0 (0.0%) |
| I've heard of it. |
  0 (0.0%) |
| You keep on bringing it up, but I've never heard anyone else mention it. |
  2 (40.0%) |
| A.C. Who? |
  1 (20.0%) |
| Ticky box! |
  1 (20.0%) |
How many children had Lady Macbeth?
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| 2.5 |
  1 (20.0%) |
| pi |
  1 (20.0%) |
| e |
  1 (20.0%) |
| 13 |
  0 (0.0%) |
| none |
  2 (40.0%) |
Ticky box!
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| Out, damned spot! Out, I say! |
  0 (0.0%) |
| One: two: why, then ‘tis time to do’t. |
  0 (0.0%) |
| Hell is murky. |
  0 (0.0%) |
| Fie, my lord, |
  0 (0.0%) |
| A soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power accompt? |
  0 (0.0%) |
| Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? |
  1 (20.0%) |
| Ye ticky box! |
  0 (0.0%) |
| *The* ticky box. "Ye" is fake and un-Shakespearian. |
  1 (20.0%) |
| Alas, poor ticky box! I knew him, Horatio. |
  2 (40.0%) |
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