The Ship of Theseus

I guess I'm not a brilliant philosopher after all.  In an earlier post, I raised the question of the point at which my crappy squier becomes a different guitar, or even whether it will always be the squier because the starting point influenced my choices for replacement components along the way.  For example, even if it ends up with an el primo callaham trem, that trem will be an "import" size.

It turns out that this line of thought is referred to as The Ship of Theseus, referring to a ship that belonged to Theseus being kept in repair in a museum, which ultimatley replaced all its parts.