{
  "title": "Ship of Theseus variants under Hobbes's rule and two rival views",
  "description": "Eight versions of the Ship of Theseus story checked against Hobbes's rule for “ship” (identity depends on the matter) and the two other views he names (form, and the aggregate of all the accidents). The basis column says Hobbes, explicit when the verdict is stated in De Corpore Part II ch. 11 §7, and our application, marked as a hypothesis, when this page applies his wording to a case he does not discuss. Share columns use a 10-plank model ship; Plutarch gives no plank count, so any plank count for the real galley would be a lone count. Quotations are verbatim from public-domain translations. Compiled 2026-10-07, revised 2026-10-31. License CC BY 4.0.",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "creator": "Puzzles, Charts & Dilemmas",
  "page": "https://puzzleschartsanddilemmas.com/thought-experiments/ship-of-theseus/",
  "derived_from": [
    "Thomas Hobbes, Elements of Philosophy, The First Section, Concerning Body (De Corpore, 1655), Part II ch. 11 sec. 7, in W. Molesworth (ed.), The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, vol. 1 (London: John Bohn, 1839), pp. 135-138, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73877 (public domain)",
    "Plutarch, Life of Theseus 23.1, trans. B. Perrin (Loeb, 1914), https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Theseus*.html (public domain text)"
  ],
  "method": "Compiled by Puzzles, Charts & Dilemmas from the data listed"
}