Dear Bardvark,
I'm writing to ask you an incredibly important question... on behalf of a beloved friend. So this friend has—over the course of the past almost semesester and a half—slowly but surely, stolen every compnent part of the kline tent and replaced them with exact replicas. The question isn't, as you may be expecting, what on earth is your problem!?!?!????? The question at hand is: is the tent in the field by Kline still, indeed, the Kline Tent? I would really appreciate any insight you have for my friend, and if it's not too much to ask, for that insight to come with Chicago style citations and before next Thursday.
Philosophically yours,
Friend of Theseus
Dear Friend of Theseus,
Your pal might want to check out Noam Chomsky's book, Of Minds and Language:
Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo, Juan Uriagereka, and Pello Salaburu, eds. 2009. Of Minds and Language: A Dialogue with Noam Chomsky in the Basque Country. N.p.: OUP Oxford.
He tells us that the tent is still the tent as long as we can still think of it as the tent. That being said, you'd better hope that no one reads this and thinks of your friend as a sick freak who's been cutting up the Kline tent just to prove a point like a little weirdo, because then they would be exactly that, and as long as we hold that image of them in our minds that is how they will remain in reality, because what is reality if not our own perception of it.
Anyways, hope this helps!
Good luck on ur midterms :)
-The Bardvark