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    The Memory Theory of personal identity is committed to mu... — Carmelics
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    The Memory Theory of personal identity is committed to mutually incompatible theses and is therefore internally inconsistent.

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    • 1.According to the Memory Theory, sameness of memory is a necessary condition for sameness of person.
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    • 2.If a person at time tn does not episodically remember an event at time t1, then the person at time tn cannot be identical with any person who was witness or agent to that event at t1.
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    • 3.The general does not remember being beaten at school.
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    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...

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    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
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