Reid's brave officer paradox demonstrates this: if the general cannot remember the flogged boy, yet the officer did remember him, identity becomes non-transitive under the psychological account.
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Thomas Reid was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher who argued that humans have direct access to knowledge through their senses and intuition, and that we should trust our common-sense beliefs about the world.
The Brave Officer Paradox(the specific example being discussed)
A thought experiment where a boy is flogged, grows up to become an officer who remembers the flogging, and then becomes a general who can't remember it—showing a puzzle about whether they're all the same person.