Sentence examples for memory criterion and from inspiring English sources

This criterion requires a wider variety and a greater number of psychological connections than does the memory criterion, and so it can sidestep the worries attaching to Locke's account, while also emphasizing that psychological, not biological, relations are what matter for responsibility.

Defending the reality of time against JME McTaggart's theories in Truth, Love and Immortality (1979) was an excellent opportunity for reasserting the truth of God's interventions in time and reconciling difficulties in divine foreknowledge; repudiating Locke's memory criterion for personal identity gave scope to rehabilitate the archaic doctrine of bodily resurrection.

Locke himself is sometimes said (probably incorrectly) to have advocated a memory criterion, according to which a person, x, existing at one time, $t_1$, and a person, y, existing at a later time, $t_2$, y is identical with x if and only if y remembers experiences had by x.

The memory criterion was criticized by Butler and Reid principally because it was said to be circular, and, as a criterion of personal identity, incompatible with the transitivity of identity.

The second modification extends the memory criterion to include forward looking psychological connections, such as that between present intention and future action, as determinants of personal identity.

Call this the memory criterion.

The memory criterion mentioned earlier is an example.

This avoids the most obvious objections to the memory criterion.

The psychological continuity criterion is an improvement on the original memory criterion.

We can avoid the charge of circularity by restating the memory criterion in the following way.

The memory criterion came to be modified in two further ways.