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    The conceptual and evidential ties between memory and per... — Carmelics
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    The conceptual and evidential ties between memory and personal identity do not license analyzing personal identity in terms of memory

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    • 1.Reid's circularity argument shows memory-based analyses presuppose personal identity, making them viciously circular rather than explanatory.
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    • 2.If remembering an experience requires being the person who had it, then identity cannot be grounded in memory without presupposing what it explains.
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    • 1.Parfit's fission cases demonstrate memory continuity can hold between numerically distinct persons, so memory continuity underdetermines personal identity facts.
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    • 2.Any relation that fails to guarantee uniqueness cannot serve as the metaphysical ground of the one-to-one relation that personal identity requires.
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    • 1.Memory is tied to personal identity conceptually and evidentially
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    • 2.Conceptual and evidential connections do not entail a metaphysical connection
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    • 3.Only a metaphysical connection would license analyzing personal identity in terms of memory
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    According to Reid, memory is neither necessary nor sufficient for personal identity, metaphysically speaking, despite the conceptual and evidential relations memory bears to personal identity. It is not a necessary condition because each us has been agent or witness to many events that we do not now remember. “I may have other good evidence of things which befell me, and which I do not remember: I know who bare me, and suckled me, but I do not remember these events” (Essays, 264). It is not a su
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