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    A criterion for personal identity cannot presuppose the a... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The memory criterion for personal identity is circular and therefore uninformative as a sufficient condition for persistence.

    A criterion for personal identity cannot presuppose the answer to the very question it is meant to settle.

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    Second, it seems to belong to the very idea of remembering that you can remember only your own experiences. To remember paying a fine (or the experience of it) is to remember yourself paying. That makes it trivial and uninformative to say that you are the person whose experiences you can remember—that memory continuity is sufficient for us to persist. It’s uninformative because you cannot know whether someone genuinely remembers a past experience without already knowing whether she is the one wh

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