Skip to content
Carmelics
TopicsThinkersChangesContributorsLoading account…

    Carmelics

    A reasoning platform. Break down any belief into clear reasons, explore both sides, and weigh the evidence honestly.

    Navigate

    • Topics
    • Search
    • Recent Changes
    • Contribute
    • How It Works
    • Glossary
    • Thinkers
    • Contributors
    • About
    • Statistics
    • Terms
    • Privacy

    Database

    Statements
    —
    Perspectives
    —
    Topics
    —

    Press ? for keyboard shortcuts

    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
    Made withinDC&Austin
    Statements
    321,452
    Perspectives
    108,905
    Topics
    42
    The general does not remember being beaten at school. — Carmelics
    Home/Personal Identity
    HistoryEditSee Inverse

    Part of a larger discussion

    Challenges→The Memory Theory of personal identity is committed to mutually incompatible theses and is therefore internally inconsistent.

    The general does not remember being beaten at school.

    Personal Identity
    ?Rate how convincing each reason is below to see the overall strength.

    No one has weighed in yet. Be the first to share reasons for or against this statement.

    Sign in or register to share your perspective on this statement.

    Topics

    Personal Identity

    Connections

    2 topics

    Modality & Possibility1 linkedSkepticism1 linked

    Next step

    Based on where you are in your exploration

    Browse more in Personal Identity
    Related propositions within the same area of thought.

    Related

    A theory cannot coherently entail both that A is identical with B and that A is ...According to the Memory Theory, sameness of memory is a necessary condition for ...If a person at time tn does not episodically remember an event at time t1, then ...The Memory Theory of personal identity is committed to mutually incompatible the...
    +2 moreShow less
    Therefore, the general cannot be identical with the boy who was beaten at school...Yet the Memory Theory also implies the general is identical with the boy who was...

    Similar

    The general is identical with the boy who was beaten at school.87%Therefore, the general cannot be identical with the boy who was beaten...85%The brave officer episodically remembers being beaten at school.80%Yet the Memory Theory also implies the general is identical with the b...74%

    Source

    AI-extracted
    SEP: reid-memory-identity
    View source passageHide passage
    However, on this account, given that sameness of memory is a necessary condition for sameness of person, if a person at time tn does not remember (episodically) an event that occurred at time t1, then the person at time tn cannot be identical with any person who was witness or agent to the event at time t1. If the general cannot remember being beaten at school, he cannot be identical with the boy who was beaten. Thus, the Memory Theory is committed to mutually incompatible theses: that the Gener

    Details

    Type
    premise
    Perspectives
    0 (0 for, 0 against)
    Edits
    1 edit

    Open for perspectives

    This idea is waiting for its first supporting or challenging perspective.

    Share the first perspective