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    It is not the case that 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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