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    If immaterial souls can be re-identified through psycholo... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Re-identifying immaterial souls by re-identifying their embodiment is not always possible.

    If immaterial souls can be re-identified through psychological continuity chains rather than embodiment, then the failure of bodily re-identification does not entail the failure of soul re-identification.

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    Entail(In logical reasoning and argumentation)
    To logically follow or guarantee as a necessary consequence; if something is true, what does it force to also be true?
    Immaterial souls(as used in metaphysics and philosophy of mind)
    Non-physical, spiritual essences believed to be the core of a person's identity—the idea that you're more than just your body.
    Re-identification(as used in metaphysics and personal identity)
    The ability to recognize or confirm that the same person or thing still exists at different times, even if they've changed.
    embodiment(Rohrbaugh's example: a photograph's embodiments include its negative and subsequent prints)
    A physical object in the causal-historical series on which a historical individual (artwork) is ontologically dependent
    psychological continuity

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    (Philosophy of personal identity)
    A relation holding between a person at one time and a being at a later time when the later being inherits the memories, intentions, beliefs, and psychological states of the earlier person.

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