Let's say you have an ax. Six months after you buy the ax, the handle breaks. So you replace the handle. Six months after you replace the handle, the blade breaks. So you replace the blade. Is the ax you have now still the same ax as you had twelve months ago? If not, when did it not become the ax you had twelve months before the blade broke?
2006-10-28 16:57:38 · 12 answers · asked by zypher_54 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
That is a really well thought out question! I would say that it is YOUR ax, but it is not the SAME ax. When you replaced the handle (first of the two replacement) the new handle became yours as part of your ax. When you replaced the blade, you attached it to your handle, even though it wasn't the original handle and isn't now the original blade. Same? No. Yours? Yes. (And now that I've taken a swing at this answer, I think I'll go see what other questions you've axed....)
2006-10-28 17:03:13 · answer #1 · answered by Hot Lips 4077 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the axe is not the same axe you had twelve months ago as soon as you replace the handle as the same axe you had six months before the handle broke had a handle that was not broken when you say it it the same axe it changes everytime you add a different part to it but on the whole i would say in my case that the axe is the same axe because it is mine no matter what modifications it has had to it
2006-10-28 17:09:37 · answer #2 · answered by wrenchbender19 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Say some one loses a leg and it is replaced by a bionic one. It is stll the same person, but with a diffrent leg. If the person dies and the leg is given to a different person, then no it would not be the same. The original leg and the original body are gone.
All of the parts have been replaced, so it can't be the same as what you started with. It is an ax made entirely of spare parts.
2006-10-28 17:13:12 · answer #3 · answered by dumbblond 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The axe became a different axe after the first part of it was replaced; however, as a system, it is still (functionally) the same system.
2006-10-28 17:00:58 · answer #4 · answered by MJQ 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It became a different axe the moment you replaced the last original part.
2006-10-28 17:00:01 · answer #5 · answered by Jon M 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's the same ax you always had - because it's your's.
2006-10-28 16:59:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
What an Axe!
2006-10-28 17:05:34 · answer #7 · answered by WebXen 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
let's say you had a brain - but the brain you have isn't the same brain as you used to have because you used to be a little bit smart and now you're a total 'tard. Is it still the same brain you had - just dumbed down?
2006-10-28 17:01:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
the first time you used it.
2006-10-28 17:02:01 · answer #9 · answered by larryclay2006 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
when you replaced the handle.
2006-10-28 16:59:33 · answer #10 · answered by recyclingmamma@sbcglobal.net 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋