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    It is not the case that Parfit's reductionist view dissolves the problem differently: personal identity is not a further determinate fact beyond physical and psychological continuity relations.

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    • 1.Continuity relations admit of degrees, but personal identity seems binary; reductionism struggles to explain why identity isn't itself degree-dependent.
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    • 2.The subjective first-person perspective ('what it's like to be me') appears to be a determinate fact that physical/psychological continuity alone may not capture.
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    • 3.Reductionism conflates what matters for survival with what personal identity actually is—these may come apart conceptually and metaphysically.
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    • 1.Invoking a 'further fact' beyond physical/psychological continuity adds metaphysical baggage without explanatory benefit or empirical verification.
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    • 2.Our practical concerns about survival (memory, relationships, responsibility) track continuity relations, not a mysterious non-physical identity fact.
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    • 3.Reductionism avoids counterintuitive results from strict identity views, like denying survival in fission cases where continuity relations hold.
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