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    Challenges→Memory continuity as a necessary condition for personal identity is not trivially uninformative.

    If memory is merely a contingent indicator of deeper psychological connectedness, its necessity condition status is derivative and thus trivially borrowed from a more fundamental criterion.

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    Derivative(in philosophy)
    Coming from or depending on something else, rather than being fundamental or primary.
    Necessity condition status(as used in logic and metaphysics)
    Whether something is absolutely required or essential for something else to be true or exist.
    contingent(De Interpretatione 12–13)
    Equated with 'possible'; on the two-sided interpretation, contingency excludes necessity (possibility implies non-necessity).
    criterion(as used in philosophy to describe a test for whether an idea works)
    A standard or rule used to decide whether something counts as true or valid.
    fundamental(as used in metaphysics)

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    Basic, primary, or most essential—the deepest level of something, not derived from anything else.
    psychological connectedness(in personal identity theory)
    The idea that you are the same person over time because your memories, personality traits, and mental experiences are linked together in a continuous chain.

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