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    Yet the Memory Theory also implies the general is identic... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The Memory Theory of personal identity is committed to mutually incompatible theses and is therefore internally inconsistent.

    Yet the Memory Theory also implies the general is identical with the boy who was beaten (through a chain of overlapping memories connecting the general to the young officer, and the young officer to the boy).

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    Identity (philosophical)(as used in metaphysics and logic)
    When two things are actually the same thing, not just similar—like how Clark Kent and Superman are identical (the same person with two names).
    Memory Theory(Philosophy of personal identity)
    The view that personal identity consists in memory; sameness of memory is metaphysically necessary and sufficient for sameness of person.
    Overlapping memories(personal identity over time)
    A chain where person A remembers what person B experienced, person B remembers what person C experienced, and so on—creating a connected link even though A might not directly remember C.

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    A theory cannot coherently entail both that A is identical with B and that A is ...According to the Memory Theory, sameness of memory is a necessary condition for ...If a person at time tn does not episodically remember an event at time t1, then ...The Memory Theory of personal identity is committed to mutually incompatible the...
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    The general does not remember being beaten at school.Therefore, the general cannot be identical with the boy who was beaten at school...

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    The general is identical with the boy who was beaten at school.87%Therefore, the general cannot be identical with the boy who was beaten...86%The general is identical with the brave officer who took the enemy's f...79%The brave officer is identical with the boy who was beaten at school.79%

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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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