PP111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Sharpening, Reductio Ad Absurdum, Fideism
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If we undergo change, we do not survive. Three positions of whether we remain the same person: plato- we remain the same person for a lifetime or more. Persons are something distinct from the many changing things. Physical and psychological flux: diotima- undergo change. Do not persists from one day to the next. Body and soul changes: middle ground between two extremes- if the righ relationship exists between younger and older selves, they might be the same person despite the changes we undergo. Sharpening the problem: problem of personal identity: the philosophical problem of explaining what makes a person numerically the same person through the many physical and psychological changes undergo in a lifetime. 2 things can be qualitatively identical in one respect (colour) while being qualitatively different in other respects (shape: numerical identity: for a to be numerically identical to b, a and b must be one and the same object.
