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A theory of personal identity is intended to account for how a person remains identical over time.
A 2008 National Academy of Sciences report said there was not yet conclusive evidence that the markings produced by a gun are identical over time and under different conditions.
Because mental states are fleeting and non-continuous they cannot remain identical over time.
Reid argues that Locke cannot sustain both the thesis that the self is not a substance and the thesis that self remains identical over time.
Reid captures Locke on the horns of a dilemma: either the self is a substance, in which case it remains identical over time, or the self is not a substance, in which case there is no personal identity.
Those familiar with the contemporary literature on personal identity, with its emphasis on the necessary and sufficient conditions under which a person remains identical over time, may wonder: if Reid holds that memory is not the criterion of identity, and if Reid's substance dualism rules out bodily identity as a criterion of personal identity, in what does personal identity consist?
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The remaining two sites show differences in value but provide identical evolution over time.
Some women, in particular, have nearly identical measurements over time, whereas others have highly variable measurements.
The expected number is calculated under the assumption that individual occurrences occur randomly with an identical rate over time.
Body temperature showed an almost identical decrease over time in both treatment groups (EcN: −0.5 ± 0.4°C; placebo: −0.4 ± 0.5°C).
Searle et al.'s (2008) final criterion related to use of identical items over time is not relevant to this study, which assesses frailty at a single point in time [ 22].
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