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    Personal identity under counterfactual origin scenarios a... — Carmelics
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    Personal identity under counterfactual origin scenarios admits of degrees or partial overlap rather than a strict yes/no answer.

    Personal Identity
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    • 1.A creature created from slightly modified sperm and the same egg would have had a kind of overlap of psychic constitution with Jones.
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    • 2.Overlap of psychic constitution admits of degrees, unlike strict numerical identity.
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    • 3.Therefore, whether Jones would have existed is not a binary fact but a matter of degree.
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    • 1.Numerical identity is a logical relation governed by Leibniz's Law: it is necessarily all-or-nothing, admitting no degrees.
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    • 2.Psychic or psychological overlap describes qualitative similarity, not numerical identity, and conflating them commits a category error.
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    • 3.Kripke's modal essentialism establishes that an individual either originates from a given sperm-egg pair or does not—there is no metaphysically intermediate case.
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    • 1.Parfit's reductionist framework, which grounds degrees-of-identity talk, entails that personal identity itself is not what matters—undermining rather than supporting degree-based identity claims.
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    • 2.If identity admits of degrees, transitivity fails, generating contradictions: a series of overlapping creatures could chain Jones to a numerically distinct individual.
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    Why is this so? Imagine the case where we are not sure whether it would have been Jones’ body – and, hence, Jones – that would have been created by the slightly modified sperm and the same egg. Can we say, as we would for an object with no consciousness, that the story something the same, something different is the whole story: that overlap of constitution is all there is to it? For the Jones body as such, this approach would do as well as for any other physical object. But suppose Jones, in ref
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