The wood of which the design is constructed decays and is replaced when necessary. The intention of the original builders is what survives.
"The idea of the building, the intention of it, its design, are all immutable and are the essence of the building. In the book Last Chance to See Douglas Adams discusses the Gold Pavilion Temple in Kyoto, which is an example similar to the Shinto shrine (discussed in the main article), and realised the following: He calls this ship the Argo, on which Theseus was said to have sailed with Jason he may have confused the Argo (referred to in passing in Plutarch's Theseus at 19.4) with the ship that sailed from Crete ( Theseus, 23.1). The French critic and essayist Roland Barthes refers at least twice to a ship that is entirely rebuilt, in the preface to his Essais Critiques (1971) and later in his Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes (1975) in the latter the persistence of the form of the ship is seen as a key structuralist principle. Like the knife which has had two new blades and three new handles, the upper fringe of English society is still almost what it was in the mid-nineteenth century. Yet at the moment of writing it is still possible to speak of a ruling class.
George Orwell alludes to the Ship of Theseus paradox in his 1940 essay The Lion and the Unicorn:
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