PHIL 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Modus Ponens, Antiscience, John Locke
11 Mar 2018
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If there is, then it"s valid: why, there"s no way that the premises could be true and the conclusion false. First formula: everybody has someone as mother. Second formula: someone is the mother of everybody: are these inferences correct, refer to detailed explanation in pg. 9 of the reading. Personal identity by olsen: the problems of personal identity. Suppose you point to a child in an old class photograph and say, that"s me. Whether this could happen depends on whether biological death necessarily brings one"s existence to an end. Imagine that after your death there really will be someone, in the next world or in this one, who resembles you in certain ways. The answer to these questions depends on the answer to the persistence question. What it takes for you to persist through time is one thing; how we might find out whether you have is another.
