ABSTRACT
At the time, however, only one of these is Tibbles, since Tibbles still has all 1,000 of the hairs intact. And all we need to do is to recognize that the other 999 are merely parts of Tibbles, parts of a cat. The fact that Tibbles doesn’t lose his identity if he loses one of the hairs doesn’t mean that the 1,000 hairs are not part of him now. There is only one cat on the mat. Tibbles minus one of the hairs would constitute a cat if that hair had already fallen out, but it hasn’t. And it may fall out in future, in which case the constitution of Tibbles would have changed a little. But then the constitution of animals and people is constantly changing.
