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    Questions 1 and 2 about personal identity are equivalent. — Carmelics
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    Questions 1 and 2 about personal identity are equivalent.

    Personal Identity
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    • 1.Person essentialism holds that whatever is a person at one time must be a person at every time when that entity exists.
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    • 2.If every person is a person essentially, then the persistence question (what makes a person persist over time) and the identity question (what makes something the same person) pick out the same conditions.
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    • 1.A human animal can persist through time without ever instantiating personhood, as in cases of pre-personal infancy or permanent vegetative states.
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    • 2.If the persistence conditions of the underlying substance (the animal) differ from the conditions of personhood, then what persists and what makes something the same person come apart.
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    • 3.Therefore, the persistence question and the personal identity question track different ontological targets and cannot be equivalent.
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    • 1.Locke distinguished the forensic concept of 'person' from the metaphysical concept of 'man', grounding personal identity in psychological continuity rather than substance.
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    • 2.On a Lockean view, psychological continuity answers question 2 (what makes me the same person), while the persistence of the organism answers question 1 (what makes this entity continue to exist).
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    • 3.The equivalence claim collapses a normative-forensic question about moral and legal accountability into a purely metaphysical persistence question, obscuring their distinct explanatory roles.
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    Those who state the persistence question as Question 1 generally do so because they assume that every person is a person essentially: nothing that is in fact a person could possibly exist without being a person. (By contrast, no student is a student essentially: something that is in fact a student can exist without being a student.) This claim, “person essentialism”, implies that whatever is a person at one time must be a person at every time when she exists. It makes Questions 1 and 2 equivalen
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