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Perry
Title: Perry
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1242 | Pages: 5.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Perry
Perry's Dialogue, Night I
The three nights of Perry's Dialogue examine three theories of personal identity. The first is what we might call a substance account (that's a technical term.) Identity is carried by a certain thing, namely your soul. The second night offers a psychological account of personal identity -- that it is memory that knits the stages of a person together into a single whole. And the third night considers, first, the view that …showed first 75 words of 1242 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1242 total…It's supposed to be an invisible, intangible, undetectable thing that somehow makes us who we are. That's not just common sense. That's a very strange metaphysical notion that has somehow crept into the way people talk. Maybe there is such a thing. But it's not obvious. It's also not obvious that it matters, since -- to reapeat yet again -- whether there is a soul and whether there is life after death simply aren't the same question.
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