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Ideas for Peter Carruthers, Melissus and G.F. Stout

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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / c. Inadequacy of mental continuity

1396	We identify persons before identifying conscious states [Carruthers]
	Full Idea: We can have no conception of the particularity of conscious states prior to, and independently of, a conception of a particularity of persons.
	From: Peter Carruthers (Introducing Persons [1986], 2.iii (C))
	A reaction: agrees with Butler