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    It is not the case that Memory is causally dependent on personal identity rather than constitutive of it, as Reid argued against Locke's circularity.

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    • 1.Reid's appeal to an underlying 'substance' or 'soul' is metaphysically obscure and makes identity equally mysterious, not clearer.
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    • 2.Memory actually constitutes our practical and epistemic grasp of personal identity; without it, identity claims become empirically inaccessible.
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    • 3.Infants lack robust autobiographical memory yet gain identity through time; this shows identity is memory-dependent, not merely causally related.
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    • 1.Personal identity must be logically independent of memory, else we cannot explain how we identify persons before they form memories.
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    • 2.Locke's criterion creates circularity: X is the same person as Y if X remembers Y's experiences, but this presupposes X and Y are the same person.
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    • 3.Memory is a psychological state that causally depends on a continuing subject; the subject cannot depend on its own mental products.
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