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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.
Gist of Idea
We identify persons before identifying conscious states
Source
Peter Carruthers (Introducing Persons [1986], 2.iii (C))
Book Ref
Carruthers,Peter: 'Introducing Persons' [Routledge 1992], p.58
A Reaction
agrees with Butler
1394 | Can the mental elements of a 'bundle' exist on their own? [Carruthers] |
1395 | Why would a thought be a member of one bundle rather than another? [Carruthers] |
1396 | We identify persons before identifying conscious states [Carruthers] |