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    Under Parfit's Moderate Claim, psychological continuity m... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→If psychological continuity is the basis of personal identity (Parfit's Moderate Claim), then persons remain metaphysically distinct from sets of lives, and the reductionist argument against interpersonal distributive principles fails.

    Under Parfit's Moderate Claim, psychological continuity matters as much as identity was thought to matter.

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    The success of arguments for this conclusion actually depends on the specific version of reductionism being advanced. After all, there are several possible ethically significant metaphysical units compatible with reductionism, and it turns out that the larger the unit, the less successful the argument will be. As the authors on this topic do, we will focus just on the three possible psychological units: persons, selves, and atoms. If one believes that the only relevant units are atoms (momentar

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