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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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Consciousness of identity can't be identity; it presupposes identity is already understood
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p.100
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1340
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Consciousness of past shows us our identity, but it doesn't make our identity [PG]
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p.100
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1342
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A tree retains identity in a 'loose popular sense', but in a 'strict philosophical sense' it changes with its particles [PG]
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p.101
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1343
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If trees change identity when substance changes, unchanging persons must have a fixed substance [PG]
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p.102
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1346
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How can we care about our past or future without personal identity? [PG]
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p.104
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1347
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If we performed our past actions, we must have constant substance or properties [PG]
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