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Memory and personal identity

John Locke (1694): a person is the same person as far back as their memory reaches - shown by the prince who wakes in a shoemaker's body. Thomas Reid's brave officer (1785) shows the trouble: memories fade, but "the same one" can't.

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You can explain Locke's memory answer with the prince and the shoemaker, and the problem Reid's brave officer raises for it.

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    You can explain Locke's memory answer with the prince and the shoemaker, and the problem Reid's brave officer raises for it.

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    Personal identityLocke's memory answer is one of the answers to personal identity.

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  1. 1BeliefDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  2. 2KnowledgeDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  3. 3Good reasonsDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  4. 4PerceptionDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  5. 5ObservationDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  6. 6HypothesisDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  7. 7ClaimDepth 1 · Foundation · Logic
  8. 8ArgumentDepth 1 · Foundation · Logic
  9. 9Conditional statementsDepth 1 · Foundation · Logic
  10. 10PredictionDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  11. 11EvidenceDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  12. 12Testing against the worldDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  13. 13What science can't answerDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  14. 14Questions about what is realDepth 1 · Foundation · Metaphysics
  15. 15Things and their propertiesDepth 1 · Foundation · Metaphysics
  16. 16Two kinds of samenessDepth 1 · Foundation · Metaphysics
  17. 17Identity over timeDepth 1 · Foundation · Metaphysics
  18. 18Personal identityDepth 1 · Foundation · Metaphysics
  19. 19Memory and personal identityDepth 1 · Foundation · Metaphysics

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