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Philosophy of MindIntermediate18 minPlanned

Memory, Circularity, and the Brave Officer

Locke's memory criterion, Butler's charge that it presupposes the identity it was meant to define, and Reid's officer who both is and is not the boy

Planned, not yet written

This rung already has its place in the Philosophy of Mind ladder and a fixed job in the order. The prose is what is missing. Writing it out of sequence would break the guarantee that nothing here uses a term before an earlier article defines it.

Will definememory criterionbodily criterionButler's circularity objectionbrave officer paradoxquasi-memory
Assumesmental stateintrospectionconsciousnesspersonal identitypsychological continuityfission case

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