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    It is not the case that The assumption that distinct and incommunicable intellectual acts and volitional acts are necessary conditions for being a person should be rejected.

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    • This assumption is an ungrounded modern assumption.
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    • 1.Boethius defined person as 'an individual substance of a rational nature,' grounding personhood in substance rather than discrete acts.
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    • 2.Aquinas, following Boethius, located personal identity in subsistent relations, not in numerically distinct cognitive or volitional episodes.
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    • 3.If the Boethian-Thomistic tradition grounds personhood without requiring incommunicable acts, the assumption in question lacks historical necessity.
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    • 1.Contemporary analytic philosophers like Brian Leftow argue that a single locus of consciousness can ground multiple personal distinctions via functional roles.
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    • 2.If functional-role differentiation suffices for personal distinction, numerically distinct intellectual and volitional acts are not necessary conditions for personhood.
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