Questions tagged [identity]
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Does impersonation heighten the evil of an immoral behaviour, perhaps similarly to illegality?
Does impersonation heighten the evil of an immoral behaviour, perhaps similarly to illegality? I tend to think of just laws doing exactly that, and suspect that impersonating, e.g. by identity theft, ...
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Is identity the consciousness or merely something emerging into consciousness by its close proximity to the intelligence and its process?
In the study of consciousness. The self (the identity that watches and listens, has opinions, makes comments).
This self may say, "I am the consciousness that is intelligent because I think. I ...
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Under physicalism, can my consciousness reappear in a different body?
For the sake of argument, let's assume some form of physicalism is true. If physicalism holds, how fundamental can consciousness be? Would it make sense to talk about individual discretized ...
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help with understanding Deleuze's argument on "difference first, identity second"
if i'm not mistaken, deleuze says you only know about "apple" because you know apple is not an orange, is not a tea, is not justice, is not rock,...
so by differentiating "apple" ...
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Identity is circular?
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on identity says:
Identity can be characterised ... as the relation everything has to itself and to nothing else. But this is circular, since "nothing else" just means "no non-...
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What kind of free will does Harry Potter have while travelling in time?
In the movie A prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter is saved by a mysterious figure that looks like his father shortly before passing out. After that, he learns that time travel is real. He travels to ...
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Is Alzheimer’s disease evidence for the non-existence of the soul?
As Alzheimer's disease kills off neurons, a person's personality and cognitive abilities gradually fade away. Doesn't this suggest that the self or "soul" is simply an emergent property of ...
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Is the question of Identity more difficult than the question of Free Will?
The experience of free will certainly exists. That is, whatever is happening when a decision is made by a conscious agent, the agent experiences feelings like indecision, fear, or desire feeding into ...
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I wanted to ask about "EGO", how philosophers have defined ego? [duplicate]
Many philosophers have touched the topic of "Ego". For instance, Freud, Buddha, Iqbal and many others. We all have fragile ego. In simple terms, how ego can be defined? What is the most ...
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Is Schrödinger's cat a problem of how we define identity?
If we consider that a cat is composed of numerous atomic particles, defining particles in superposition presents no issue. A cat is a human construct to represent a grouping of atoms, and notions of ...
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Why is it not plausible that the criterion of identity determines the criterion of application for concrete objects?
In the identity entry of the Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, section 4, third paragraph (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity/#CritIden), says the following (referring to concrete objects)...
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Can Leibniz's law be used to define identity?
In the identity entry of the Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, section 2, first paragraph (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity/#LogiIden), it says that it would be a circular definition.
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Paradox of the Loving "I": Is there any theory to answer my Paradox?
I came up with this when I was reading about the Paradox of Fiction in one of my Aesthetic philosophy texts. Here it is:
The Paradox of the Loving Individual:
(1) One experiences themselves as a ...
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Quid sit ego, what is the self?
From my little, torn, pouch of experiences, I present the following sentences, heard/read, it matters not.
My body
My brain
My mind
My soul
Suggests, ex mea sententia, that, the ego (self) is not an ...
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how these two statements can be true at same time?
If you consider any two numbers that are not equal in value (2 is not 3), and it is a true statement that they are not. However, it is also true to state that they are the same: both are numbers.
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