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Ideas of Joseph Butler, by Text
[British, 1692 - 1752, Bishop of Durham.]
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p.176
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Butler exalts conscience, but it may be horribly misleading [Anscombe]
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p.48
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Everything is what it is, and not another thing
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p.100
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A tree remains the same in the popular sense, but not in the strict philosophical sense
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p.100
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If consciousness of events makes our identity, then if we have forgotten them we didn't exist then
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p.100
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Consciousness presupposes personal identity, so it cannot constitute it
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p.102
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If the self changes, we have no responsibilities, and no interest in past or future
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p.102
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Despite consciousness fluctuating, we are aware that it belongs to one person
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