Ancient Greek comic poet from Sicily who is credited with early philosophical arguments about personal identity and the paradox of growth — a person is not the same after acquiring new matter.
The Growing Argument: if you add one stone to a heap, the heap is different — so you cannot be the same person after growing or eating (your constituent matter has changed). An early version of the Ship of Theseus problem applied to personal identity.
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