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'works', 'Essays on Intellectual Powers 3: Memory' and 'An Essay on Free Will'
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16. Persons / A. Concept of a Person / 2. Persons as Responsible
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Personal identity is the basis of all rights, obligations and responsibility [Reid]
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16. Persons / A. Concept of a Person / 3. Persons as Reasoners
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I can hardly care about rational consequence if it wasn't me conceiving the antecedent [Reid]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / a. Memory is Self
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The identity of a thief is only known by similarity, but memory gives certainty in our own case [Reid]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / c. Inadequacy of mental continuity
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Memory reveals my past identity - but so does testimony of other witnesses [Reid]
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If consciousness is transferable 20 persons can be 1; forgetting implies 1 can be 20 [Reid]
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Boy same as young man, young man same as old man, old man not boy, if forgotten! [Reid]
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If a stolen horse is identified by similitude, its identity is not therefore merely similitude [Reid]
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If consciousness is personal identity, it is continually changing [Reid]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 7. Self and Thinking
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Thoughts change continually, but the self doesn't [Reid]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 7. Compatibilism
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Determinism clashes with free will, as the past determines action, and is beyond our control [Inwagen, by Jackson]
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