It doesn't handle the semiconservative replication case, where each resultant person retains half the material from the original, and you run into ship of theseus and sorites paradoxes
On Thursday, May 15, 2014, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/14/2014 9:51 PM, Dennis Ochei wrote: > > But then the identity relationship is no longer transitive... > > Suppose a brave officer to have been flogged when a boy at school, for > robbing an orchard, to have taken a standard from the enemy in his first > campaign, and to have been made a general in advanced life: Suppose also, > which must be admitted to be possible, that when he took the standard, he > was conscious of his having been flogged at school, and that when made a > general he was conscious of his taking the standard, but had absolutely > lost the consciousness of his flogging. > These things being supposed, it follows, from Mr LOCKE’S doctrine, > that he who was flogged at school is the same person who took the standard, > and that he who took the standard is the same person who was made a > general. Whence it follows, if there be any truth in logic, that the > general is the same person with him who was flogged at school. But the > general’s consciousness does not reach so far back as his flogging, > therefore, according to Mr LOCKE’S doctrine, he is not the person who was > flogged. There- fore the general is, and at the same time is not the same > person with him who was flogged at a school. > > > Hence the common sense theory that person's are defined by bodily > continuity. > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/everything-list/S5Qi3Q_2TTI/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','everything-list%[email protected]');> > . > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > . > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
