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    A view that cannot distinguish 'what matters' from 'what ... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The psychological-continuity view, as standardly stated, is false or incomplete.

    A view that cannot distinguish 'what matters' from 'what constitutes identity' is incomplete as a theory of personal identity, even if it succeeds as a theory of prudential concern.

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    Incomplete(How Aristotle saw infinity—always in the process of continuing rather than fully done)
    Not finished or not whole; missing something or still in the process of becoming.
    Theory(Among the candidate bearers of consistency/inconsistency)
    A set of sentences closed under logical consequence.
    personal identity(Philosophy of personal identity)
    The relation of sameness holding between a person existing at one time and something existing at another time, analyzed here in terms of psychological continuity
    prudential concern(Used to ground the analogy between individual and aggregate goods)
    Concern directed at the agent's own happiness or well-being, as distinct from concern for others
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