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    If a person episodically remembers an event, that person ... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Episodic memory is logically sufficient for personal identity across time

    If a person episodically remembers an event, that person must have existed at the time of the event

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    Reid, Locke and others are interested in the notion of episodic memory not only for its own sake, but also because of its conceptual connection to the notion of personal identity. If Joe remembers, episodically, winning the World Series, then Joe must have existed at the time of his winning the World Series. This is why the Previous Awareness Condition characterizes episodic but not semantic memory. Unlike Joe’s memory that Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo, his memory of winning the World Serie

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