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What psychological relation might our persistence through time consist in?
A propositional attitude is a psychological relation between a person and a proposition.
My concern about anticipation of survival seems to depend on a belief about some future person bearing a certain sort of psychological relation to me.
The most popular are psychological-continuity views, according to which the holding of some psychological relation is necessary or sufficient (or both) for one to persist.
According to scholars such as Little (1991), the notion of learner autonomy is a "particular kind of psychological relation to the process and content of…learning" Little (1991, p. 4).
Thus, ethical inquiry and deliberation often proceeds rationally by presenting reasons to be for or against something, reasons whose effectiveness is tied to their logical or psychological relation to others' beliefs.
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"The defense view is that this provision is about organizational structure and not psychological relations," said Richard J. Bonnie, a law professor and death penalty expert at the University of Virginia.
So the mapping from attitudes A into psychological relations R is meant to be injective.
At least some of the psychological relations making up connectedness and continuity can obviously obtain interpersonally, e.g., sameness of beliefs/desires/goals, and resemblance of character.
What accounts for the practical concerns we have seems to be grounded in psychological relations, and the Biological Criterion thus targets a relation for identity that is just irrelevant for those concerns (a key exception will be discussed later, however).
At each step of this evolution human beings change their material and psychological relations to one another and, correspondingly, their conception of themselves, or what Rousseau calls the "sentiment of their existence".
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