What makes a person the same person over time
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O and S cannot be the same ship
Oscar and Oscar− are distinct at t'
The earlier self's interests have authority over the current self
'I' cannot refer to the body
A 'person' caused by the aggregates cannot provide continuity of personal identity.
A 'person' caused by the aggregates provides no answer to doubts about personal identity.
A 'world' must be a temporally extended structure, making reidentification over time a necessary condition for defining worlds.
A = B (the two spheres are identical), which is absurd given that one has a scratch and the other does not — therefore the Principle of Identity of Indiscernibles fails
A body circumscribed by a limit is 'one' because the limit specifies that everything inside it is the body and everything outside it is not the body.
A body is first ensouled when the heat of the embryo is cooled by breath, so the soul can be viewed as a harmony of opposites.
A child comes to embody the practices of their society.
A collection of properties can constitute an enduring, change-sustaining thing of a certain kind only in virtue of those properties inhering in a substratum.
A common nature cannot be numerically identical in each of its instantiations.
A conventionally real self can serve as a conventionally real moral agent
A cosmological perspective must supplement, but cannot replace, the personalist framework for understanding the human being.
A dharma's activity (horizontal causality) individuates that dharma as a particular event of its kind.
A dharma's capability (vertical causality) further individuates that dharma as that very particular dharma.
A friend is one's 'another self' because one is causally responsible for one's friend coming to have and sustain virtues, making one the friend's 'procreator' and thereby finding oneself actualized in the friend.
A friend's interpretation of oneself can reveal valuable ways of being that one could never have imagined independently.
A future being is identical to you if and only if the narratives she has then identify her with you as you are now.
A haecceity can explain both the indivisibility of a particular into further particulars and the distinction of that particular from all other particulars
A haecceity is modally distinct from its nature.
A haecceity is something like a form, but not strictly a form in the standard sense.
A human being cannot be merely a thinking thing without a body.
A human being has at least one substantial form rooted in matter and another substantial form that comes from an external source.
A judgment about one's body posture made on the basis of visual perception alone is not immune to error through misidentification.
A karmic system of cosmic justice requires a persisting self
A limit or place makes a body 'one' in two distinct ways: by unifying the body's parts with each other, and by distinguishing the body from other bodies.
A machine Mi executing program Pi implements the same algorithm as machine Mj executing program Pj if and only if the abstract machines interpreting Mi and Mj are in a bisimulation relation
A middle ground exists between substantial self and no-self
knowledge
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
Identity
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
personal identity
The relation of sameness holding between a person existing at one time and something existing at another time, analyzed here in terms of psychological continuity
necessary and sufficient conditions
A 'necessary' condition is something that must be true for something else to happen; a 'sufficient' condition is something that guarantees it will happen. This phrase describes what must be true (and what's enough) for a definition to apply.
possible world
A set of compossible essences — a maximal collection of individual natures that can co-exist without contradiction
identical
Exactly the same as something else, not just similar but truly one and the same thing.
possible worlds
Worlds that have existence in a tenuous sense; fictional worlds used to characterize the nature of possibles that are never actualized
Russell
# Russell Russell most commonly refers to **Bertrand Russell**, a highly influential British philosopher, logician, and social critic (1872-1970) who fundamentally changed how we think about logic, language, and knowledge. He's famous for showing that common-sense reasoning can contain hidden contradictions and for arguing that philosophy should use the precision of mathematics to solve problems. Russell also became a prominent public intellectual who wrote about everything from religion to nuclear weapons, making him one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century.
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