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    It is not the case that Parfit's reductionism shows that what matters in personal identity can be fully specified by psychological continuity relations without positing a unified apperceiving subject at all.

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    • 1.Psychological continuity is graded and can branch (fission cases); it cannot ground determinate identity facts that seem non-relational.
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    • 2.The unity of consciousness within a single moment appears to require a subject that binds representations together, not just causal chains.
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    • 3.Reductionism conflates 'explaining identity' with 'eliminating identity'—the claim that only relations matter still presupposes relata.
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    • 1.Personal identity over time correlates with psychological continuity (memories, intentions, character), not with metaphysical unity of a subject.
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    • 2.The unified subject posit explains nothing additional; psychological continuity relations alone account for all empirically observable identity facts.
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    • 3.Introspection reveals only successive psychological states, never a bare transcendental ego distinct from those states themselves.
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