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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 1. Identity and the Self

364	One soul can't be more or less of a soul than another [Plato]
	Full Idea: Is one soul, even minutely, more or less of a soul than another? Not in the least.
	From: Plato (Phaedo [c.382 BCE], 093b)
	A reaction: This idea is attractive because unconsciousness and death seem to be abrupt procedures, and so appear to be all-or-nothing, but I would personally view extreme Alzheimer's as an erasing of the soul, though a minimum level of it seems all-or-nothing.