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So, you're saying that Theseus' Ship and The Ship Theseus Sailed In On are the same ship if they refer to the same object? That is to say, if we both have the same object in mind when we talk about them? I'd really like a more specific way of identifying if they are the same thing; how would we explain to someone who hadn't seen either ship the features that make them identical? Or would you say they'd accept them as identical the second we claimed them so through our use of language?