RE: Argument from perpetual identity against naturalism.
March 20, 2013 at 12:18 pm
(This post was last modified: March 20, 2013 at 12:22 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It doesn't, but belief in a perpetual identity depends on the justification of a belief in identity, which is why I couldn't call it properly basic. A properly basic belief isn't just any old thing you cannot or don't care to prove but would like to assert....its a belief that does not depend upon the justification of any other belief...
One might, if one wished, consider identity properly basic, for example, but the actions or attributes of that identity couldn't be....
(I'm aware that there are other frameworks for what might constitute such a thing, but I haven't seen any that would allow your idea of a perpetual identity to meet the criteria of "properly basic", always looking though)
One might, if one wished, consider identity properly basic, for example, but the actions or attributes of that identity couldn't be....
(I'm aware that there are other frameworks for what might constitute such a thing, but I haven't seen any that would allow your idea of a perpetual identity to meet the criteria of "properly basic", always looking though)
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