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    If every person is a person essentially, then the persist... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Questions 1 and 2 about personal identity are equivalent.

    If every person is a person essentially, then the persistence question (what makes a person persist over time) and the identity question (what makes something the same person) pick out the same conditions.

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    Conditions(the statement discusses what conditions would allow x and y to be identical)
    Circumstances or requirements that would need to be present for something to happen or be true.
    essentially(describing what makes God inherently God)
    As a fundamental, unchangeable part of what something is—if something is essential to God, it's always been and always will be part of God's nature.
    identity question(in metaphysics and logic)
    A philosophical puzzle about what makes something the same thing as something else. In this case: what makes you the same person now as you were five years ago?

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    persistence(Weyl's distinction between two kinds of constancy)
    Constancy maintained because a quantity is isolated and undisturbed, as opposed to actively adjusted

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    Person essentialism holds that whatever is a person at one time must be a person...Questions 1 and 2 about personal identity are equivalent.

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    Those who state the persistence question as Question 1 generally do so because they assume that every person is a person essentially: nothing that is in fact a person could possibly exist without being a person. (By contrast, no student is a student essentially: something that is in fact a student can exist without being a student.) This claim, “person essentialism”, implies that whatever is a person at one time must be a person at every time when she exists. It makes Questions 1 and 2 equivalen

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