PHL 201 Midterm: Identity vs Continuity

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When changes in an object are sufficiently small and gradual, the resulting object is continuous with the original object. This means that the overlap between the two-the aspects in which there is no change at all-overwhelms in degree and importance the differences between the two. In wittgenstein"s image we see what continuity amounts to: the overlapping of many fibres. In the case of persons, who undergo both physical and psychological changes of the span of their lives, there are two kinds of fibres that bind together their earlier and later stages. First, for most people, there is strong physical continuity. Occasionally, as a result of a traumatic accident, physical continuity can be disrupted or broken, and a person on one day might have significant physical differences from herself on the previous day. There is also strong psychological continuity between our earlier and later selves.

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