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The question then arises as to what sort of change happens after a thing is destroyed?

When a person dies, one does not say that the person's life has changed.

Neither does one go around saying, " Harry just isn't the same sort of guy since he died.

" Instead, one says that Harry's life has ended.

Similarly, when a building is demolished, one does not say that the building ' changes '; one says that it is destroyed.

So what sort of events, on the one hand, result in a mere change, and what sort of events, on the other hand, result in a thing's destruction — in the state of its existence?

This is one aspect of the problem that will be considered here.

It is called " the problem of change and identity ".