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Aufhebung
Ship of Theseus
Answers before the problem.
Aristotle's Four Causes as Three Aspects of Being:
Material (Material), Form (Form), Function (Efficient, Final)
Note that efficient cause (how) and final cause (why) are combined in the definition of function so as to make the definition of function more elastic.
1) Material change does not necessarily change the form nor does it necessarily change the function of something.
2) Formal change does not necessarily require material change nor does it necessarily require functional change.
3) Functional change does not necessarily require material change nor does it necessarily require formal change.
As roles are often an encapsulation of function, here is one approach to change(s) in material condition(s):
A cargo cult and a sculptor and a baker and a shipbuilder and an engineer ... may give form to something, but the materiality of that form often determines its possible function.
A cargo cult and a sculptor and a baker and a shipbuilder and an engineer ... may have a sense of function as such, but the material conditions of an enacted function often determine its effectiveness.
With this approach, one answer to the problem posed by the Ship of Theseus starts with the answer to this question: which aspect(s) of the being of the ship are allowed to change before we consider the ship changed?
Indeed, which aspect(s) of the being are allowed to change before we consider being itself changed?
Note on Aspects of Figuration: For additional analysis, we might want to consider the space the ship occupies, whether that space be a virtual space or a non-virtual space, as this space impacts our consideration of the being of the ship. Of course, time matters too. See Locke and Kant and Husserl ... .
Continuance,
an irony
an irony
Continuance as Thrown
Modal Aspects of Being
Aspect Continuance
Aspect = Community, Continuance = Survival
Forecasting This ...
Ecology helps us understand the material relation of being to its environment, but it generally concerns living being.
Though we do not always consider ~inanimate~ beings such as ships as part of an ecology (i.e., as being with ecological aspect(s)), perhaps we should as outside of construction ... , we tend not to see growth in such beings, but as time passes, we often see repair and decomposition and coral reefs visit such beings ... .
... An Interesting Word for a Certain Kind of Change
Yet we do not, of course, require ecology in order to forecast changes in being cyclically; after all, we do have the concept of life cycle, which applies to change both animate and inanimate (by analogy, as in Software Development Life Cycle).
An Ecology of Species ~ An Ecology of Function