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Full Idea
Bodily identity must be one of the criteria for personal identity (to establish that a rememberer was present at a past event), but memory itself must also be accepted as one of the criteria.
Gist of Idea
Bodily identity is one criterion and memory another, for personal identity
Source
report of Sydney Shoemaker (Personal Identity and Memory [1959], §5) by PG - Db (ideas)
Book Ref
'Personal Identity', ed/tr. Perry,John [University of California 1975], p.129
A Reaction
This concerns the epistemology of personal identity, not the ontology. Someone with total amnesia would probably accept a driving licence as a criterion. Is personal identity a mental state, or a precondition which makes mental states possible?
1389 | If memory is the sole criterion of identity, we ought to use it for other people too [Shoemaker] |
1390 | Bodily identity is one criterion and memory another, for personal identity [Shoemaker, by PG] |