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Personal Identity reasoning (Locke (Persistence) (Person (Memory (Time…
Personal Identity reasoning
Plato
Entity
Conciousness
I think, therefore I am
Recognisible
Characterists
one entity
Many identities
Definable
Locke (Persistence)
human being
Person
Memory
Time
Past
present
Defines you as a person
Organic nature
Soul
Psychologiocal continuity
Tools required to translate personal identity
Beliefs
Memory
Intentions
Memory loss
Loss of soul
Becomes only organic matter
Descartes
Bringds doubt to everything
Can't doubt his own thoughts
Mental ability of asking questions
Assumes he must be a substance called 'I'
Brings language to define personal identity
Vague
Name comes into the equation
Recognizablw as one self
How my 'I' is different from your 'I'
Distictive from others
Requirement for personal identity
Clears everything
Wittgenstein
Evolves the debate about language
Separates the discussion
Metaphysics
difficult to discuss
No way to have proof of one having experience it
Practicalities of everyday's life
able to have experience it
Person is agent of actions
Defines as confusing the terms used in the language of Descats and Locke to identify 'I'
This
That
Here
Now
Are terms that are too subjective
Lacks criterion of identity
Creates an illusion
Bringing Metaphysical properties to language
Knowledge
Being
Object
I
Name
Words must have a family of meanings
To imagine a language means to imagine a form of life
cannot be reduced to a fundamental essence
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