PHIL 2540 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nominalism
9 Sep 2016
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All the wood is replaced over the span of time. Eventually none of the parts pf the ship are di erent. Locke: nominalist, the ship itself participates in the idea of shipness. The identity of a person seems to be reliant on the fact that we have a continuous chain of memory that can recall our own actions or thoughts from the past. If i remember doing a thing than i am the person who did that thing. P2: identity must be found in how we identify our self to ourselves: consciousness of self. P3: i identify myself as the same self through memories of prior events. C1: memory is the source of self identity. Agnostic about immateriality and immortality of the soul, the immateriality is not relevant (di erent than descartes where the immaterial soul must be proven) Descartes" theory fails test of ockham"s razor or the theory of parsimony.
