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    It is not the case that Therefore, the persistence question and the personal identity question track different ontological targets and cannot be equivalent.

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    • 1.Both questions fundamentally ask 'what makes X at time T1 identical to X at time T2?'—they share the same logical structure and truth conditions.
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    • 2.Any successful criterion for personal persistence (spatiotemporal continuity, psychological continuity) simultaneously answers both questions without remainder.
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    • 3.If the two questions tracked truly different targets, we'd expect cases where persistence held but identity didn't—yet no such cases are coherently specified.
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    • 1.Persistence asks what makes an entity the same continuant over time; identity asks what makes a person the same subject of experience.
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    • 2.A human organism can persist biologically while personal identity criteria (psychological continuity, narrative unity) change or cease.
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    • 3.Different persistence conditions apply to different kinds of entities; personal identity is a normative and explanatory concept distinct from metaphysical persistence.
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