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    It is not the case that Personal identity can persist through radical memory transformation, as Parfit's reductionist account shows identity is not all-or-nothing.

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    • 1.If identity admits degrees, 'personal identity' becomes indeterminate language; we need binary criteria for responsibility.
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    • 2.Radical memory loss severs the psychological connections that make *this person* continuous with their former self.
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    • 1.Identity intuitively admits degrees: we're more ourselves at 25 than at 5, suggesting non-binary persistence.
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    • 2.Psychological continuity matters for identity, not memory fidelity; gradual transformation preserves causal chains.
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    • 3.Requiring perfect memory retention for identity leads to absurd conclusions about normal aging and forgetting.
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