 Some are convinced that the remodeled ship has the best claim to be the original, since it exhibits a greater degree of spatio-temporal continuity with the original (Wiggins 1967). But it is unclear why the intuition that identity is preserved by spatio-temporal continuity should take precedence over the intuition that identity is preserved in the process of dismantlement and reassembly. Furthermore, certain versions of the ship of Theseus problem do not involve the feature that one of the ships competing to be the original possesses a greater degree of spatio-temporal continuity with the original than does the other (see below). Others are equally convinced that identity is not preserved by total part replacement. This view is often suggested blindly, as a stab in the dark, but there is in fact an interesting argument in its favor. Kripke (1980) argues that a table made out of a particular hunk of wood could not have been made out of a (totally) different hunk of wood. His reasoning is this: Suppose that in the actual world a table \(T\) is made out of a hunk of wood \(H\); and suppose that there is a possible world \(w\) in which this very table, \(T\), is made out of a different hunk of wood, \(H'\). Then assuming that \(H\) and \(H'\) are completely unrelated (for example, they do not overlap), so that making a table out of the one is not somehow dependent upon making a table out of the other, there is another possible world \(w'\) in which \(T\), as in the actual world, is made out of \(H\), and another table \(T'\), exactly similar to \(T\), is made out of \(H'\). Since \(T\) and \(T'\) are not identical in \(w'\), it follows by ND that the table made out of \(H'\) in \(w\) is not \(T\). Note, however, that the argument assumes that the table made out of \(H'\) in \(w'\) is the same table as the table made out of \(H'\) in \(w\).