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    We can know that a corpse resulting from a person's death... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Memory continuity as a necessary condition for personal identity is not trivially uninformative.

    We can know that a corpse resulting from a person's death cannot remember any events from that person's life without already knowing whether the corpse is identical to that person.

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    Corpse(as used in metaphysics)
    A dead body—the physical remains of a living organism after death.
    Epistemological problem(as used in philosophy of art and knowledge)
    A puzzle about how we can know or understand something, especially when there seems to be a chicken-and-egg situation where you need to know something to understand it in the first place.
    Identity(Adams treats identity statements as a variety of atomic formula rather than a logical truth exempt from existence presuppositions)
    A relation between an object and itself, expressed as an atomic formula (a=a), subject to the same existence-entailment conditions as other atomic predicates under GSA

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    a priori knowledge(Mill's critique of intuitionism)
    Knowledge claimed to be independent of experience, associated with the intuitionist school; Mill denies its existence as part of his radical empiricism.

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    Second, it seems to belong to the very idea of remembering that you can remember only your own experiences. To remember paying a fine (or the experience of it) is to remember yourself paying. That makes it trivial and uninformative to say that you are the person whose experiences you can remember—that memory continuity is sufficient for us to persist. It’s uninformative because you cannot know whether someone genuinely remembers a past experience without already knowing whether she is the one wh

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