But do we really benefit from having, for example, the Statue of Liberty aglow past closing time?
The scanner emits a thin sheet of red laser light, which illuminates an object (for example a statue), painting a stripe onto it.
Nevertheless there are several examples of statues of doughty old heroes in Trafalgar Square – not least Admiral Horatio Nelson, who surveys the British capital from the top of his tall Corinthian column.
Here, it seems that the lump of clay and the statue coincide at every moment at which either exists, yet they seem to be distinct objects because they differ in how they could have been: for example, the statue could have been made of a different lump of clay, but the lump could not.
For one thing, some authors maintain that the relationship between an object and the stuff it is made of provides a perfectly ordinary counterexample of the antisymmetry of parthood: according to Thomson (1998), for example, a statue and the clay that constitutes it are part of each other, yet distinct.
For example, using "statue" when you meant "statute" is a common error.
It's covered in birdshit now and, like everything, it will eventually crumble into dust, but as a short-term example of popularity, statues are pretty cool.
So in the statue example, he might deny that the bronze is identical to the statue and thus the two statements are about different objects.
For example, an octopus statue pun from Mother 2 was converted to a pencil statue in the EarthBound English localization and was changed accordingly in the Mother 3 localization.
Three years later, the company had finished Destination Math, a CD-ROM that, for example, uses the Statue of Liberty to teach kids about multiplication ("If the real statue is 31 times this 3-meter-tall copy, how tall is the real statue?").
