The question of what makes something an individual—or conversely not an individual but a collection—is a long-standing one in philosophy. Melville offers this illustration in The Chase—Second Day:
They were one man, not thirty. For as the one ship that held them all; though it was put together of all contrasting things—oak, and maple, [...]
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Posts so tagged contain an unmarked literary allusion of some kind. (“Literary” sensu lato.) The first readers who correctly identify these allusions will receive as a prize a packet of fresh tree bark. Blogroll