Lean only on the Mumford text, the outline(s), quote Lowe . about 350-400 words A bicycle (the bicycle of Theseus!) is taken apart and the parts boxed away. Question: Does the bicycle go on existing, in spite of its disassembly? (1) What are the reasons for thinking that it does? (2) What are the reasons for thinking that it does not? And if it doesn't go on existing, that leaves us with two possibilities-- either it enjoys intermittent or interrupted existence; or, should the parts ever be assembled, they would constitute a wholly new bicycle. Which position do you think is the more reasonable to take--that it goes on existing or that it stops existing, at least for a while? (P.S., Lowe contends (he says it's a "tentative verdict") that it does go on existing, and that it is "improbable that we should in fact ever need to speak about intermittent existence" (Lowe, 33). Maybe, maybe not.)