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    It is not the case that Memory continuity as a necessary condition for personal identity is not trivially uninformative.

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    • 1.Reid's objection shows memory criteria are circular: remembering an action presupposes being the person who performed it.
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    • 2.A necessary condition that cannot be verified without presupposing the identity it grounds collapses into uninformativeness.
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    • 1.Shoemaker and Parfit demonstrate that psychological continuity, not episodic memory specifically, does the real explanatory work in personal identity.
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    • 2.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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    • 1.We can know that a corpse resulting from a person's death cannot remember any events from that person's life without already knowing whether the corpse is identical to that person.
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    • 2.Necessary conditions can be verified independently of knowing the identity relation holds, unlike sufficient conditions in this case.
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