The paradox is most notably recorded by Plutarch in Life of Theseus
from the late 1st century. Plutarch asked whether a ship which was
restored by replacing each and every one of its wooden parts, remained
the same ship.
In the 1872 story "Dr. Ox's Experiment" by Jules Verne, there is a reference to Jeannot's knife apropos the Van Tricasse's family. In this family, since 1340, each time one of the spouses died the other remarried with someone younger, who took the family name. Thus the family can be said to have been a single marriage lasting through centuries, rather than a series of generations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
In the 1872 story "Dr. Ox's Experiment" by Jules Verne, there is a reference to Jeannot's knife apropos the Van Tricasse's family. In this family, since 1340, each time one of the spouses died the other remarried with someone younger, who took the family name. Thus the family can be said to have been a single marriage lasting through centuries, rather than a series of generations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
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