PHIL 100 Lecture 9: Locke
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The point is to provide an answer to personal identity. There is a question about an external world, but if you wait to solve that problem before you do anything else, you don"t do anything else. Not goi(cid:374)g to worr(cid:455) a(cid:271)out if there"s a ta(cid:271)le i(cid:374) the fro(cid:374)t of the roo(cid:373) ato(cid:373)s e(cid:454)ist, (cid:373)i(cid:374)ds e(cid:454)ist, et(cid:272). We watch the piece of wax change all of its observable properties and still believe that it"s the same piece of wax. When you look at something at the same time and place, it is identical to itself. When you consider things that in different places at the same time, it doesn"t matter how similar they are, they"re not the same thing. Not possible for 2 different things of the same kind (like bananas) to have their origin in the same time and place. Minds and tiniest bits of matter are easy.
