- Destabilize(as describing what independence results might do to our understanding of logic)
- To undermine or call into question the reliability or fixed nature of something.
- Discrete self(the commonsense idea that ownership and identity presuppose)
- The everyday intuition that each person is a separate, distinct, and clearly bounded individual—where 'you' ends and 'not-you' begins.
- Embodiment theory(Merleau-Ponty's theory about the role of the body in human experience)
- The philosophical idea that the body isn't just a container for the mind, but is central to consciousness, perception, and how we experience reality.
- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice(as a theorist of embodiment)
- A 20th-century French philosopher who emphasized that our body isn't separate from our mind or consciousness—instead, our lived bodily experience is fundamental to how we understand the world.
- Ownership (in philosophy)(as the main question being addressed)
- The sense that a desire or choice is genuinely *yours*—something you stand behind and identify with, rather than just something that happens to you.
- Parfit, Derek(as a major philosopher cited on this topic)
- An influential 20th-century philosopher known for writing about ethics, personal identity, and problems with how we compare different people's well-being.
- Presuppose(what both foundationalisms supposedly do)
- To assume or take for granted something as true in order to make an argument work, without proving it first.
- Reductionism (in philosophy of self)(Parfit's approach to understanding what a person really is)
- The view that something complex (like a person or the self) can be broken down into simpler parts, rather than being one indivisible whole.