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The Ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus's Paradox, is a paradox and a common thought experiment about whether an object is the same object after having all of its original components replaced over time, typically one after the other.

In Greek mythology, Theseus, the mythical king of the city of Athens, rescued the children of Athens from King Minos after slaying the minotaur and then escaped onto a ship going to Delos. Each year, the Athenians would commemorate this by taking the ship on a pilgrimage to Delos to honour Apollo. A question was raised by ancient philosophers: If no pieces of the original made up the current ship, was it still the Ship of Theseus? Furthermore, if it was no longer the same, when had it ceased existing as the original ship?

In contemporary philosophy, the thought experiment has applications to the philosophical study of identity over time. Within the contemporary philosophy of mind, it has inspired a variety of proposed solutions and concepts regarding the persistence of personal identity.

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exigent, adj.

ex·i·gent ˈek-sə-jənt
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1: requiring immediate aid or action

exigent circumstances

2: requiring or calling for much : demanding

an exigent client

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Exigent is a formal word with meanings closely tied to its Latin forbear, exigere, meaning "to demand." Exigent things and people demand attention—for example, an exigent client expects so much that they are hard to satisfy, and exigent circumstances are so significant that they can be used to justify certain police actions without the warrant typically required. Before exigent joined the language in the early 1600s, the noun exigency was being used to refer to something that is necessary in a particular situation—for example, the exigencies of an emergency situation might require that certain usual precautions be ignored. That word dates to the late 1500s, but even earlier, in the mid-1400s, exigence was on the scene doing the same job. All three words—exigent, exigency, and exigence—continue to meet the demands of English users, albeit not frequently in everyday conversation.

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Ontology:

1: a branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature and relations of being

Ontology deals with abstract entities.

2: a particular theory about the nature of being or the kinds of things that have existence

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ort, n.

: a morsel left at a meal : scrap

Etymology

Middle English, from Middle Low German orte

First Known Use

15th century

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Palinode (noun):

a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.
a recantation.

Origin of palinode¹

1590–1600; < Late Latin palinōdia < Greek palinōidía a singing again, especially a recanting, equivalent to pálin again, back + ōid ( ḗ ) ode + -ia -ia

Example sentences:

It gives no reasons; it merely cites me, not to be heard, but simply to sing a palinode.

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I look for peace in the way that Plato trod, and some day I shall write my palinode in that spirit.

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He sent for all his servants, even the piggard-boy, to come and heare his palinode.

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The Senate has revoked that bill; has retracted, recanted, and sung its palinode over that unfortunate conception.

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The 1647 edition contains two poems, The Return and Palinode, which stand to each other in a curious relation.

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