personal identity
personal identity noun: the criteria for the persistence of persons over time (i.e. what makes one the same person as one was yesterday, or ten years ago), and the criteria for the individuation of persons from others.
Noun
personal identity (uncountable)
- The criteria for the persistence of persons over time (i.e. what makes one the same person as one was yesterday, or ten years ago), and the criteria for the individuation of persons from others.
- It was largely in order to defend the justice of divine rewards and punishments in the face of his own relative agnosticism about substantial souls that Locke offered his reductive empiricist analysis of personal identity in terms of consciousness and memory.2002, Don Garrett, Cognition and Commitment in Hume's Philosophy, page 163
personal identity meaning in Tamil
personal identity in Tamil
- நிலைமாறாத் தனிமையுணர்ச்சி, அங்க அடையாளம்
Questions about personal identity
- What does personal identity mean?
- Personal identity means the criteria for the persistence of persons over time (i.e. what makes one the same person as one was yesterday, or ten years ago), and the criteria for the individuation of persons from others.
- What is personal identity in Tamil?
- Personal identity in Tamil is நிலைமாறாத் தனிமையுணர்ச்சி, அங்க அடையாளம். See Personal identity meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is personal identity?
- Personal identity is a noun.
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