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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 5. Self as Associations
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Qualia must be united by a subject, because they lead to concepts and judgements [Ayer]
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Is something an 'experience' because it relates to other experiences, or because it relates to a subject? [Ayer]
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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 7. Self and Body / a. Self needs body
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Bodily identity and memory work together to establish personal identity [Ayer]
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16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 2. Knowing the Self
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Self-consciousness is not basic, because experiences are not instrinsically marked with ownership [Ayer]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / c. Inadequacy of mental continuity
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Temporal gaps in the consciousness of a spirit could not be bridged by memories [Ayer]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 4. For Free Will
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Chrysippus allows evil to say it is fated, or even that it is rational and natural [Plutarch on Chrysippus]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will
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A swerve in the atoms would be unnatural, like scales settling differently for no reason [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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It is an absurd Kantian idea that at the limit rationality and freedom coincide [Williams,B]
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There is only a problem of free will if you think the notion of 'voluntary' can be metaphysically deepened [Williams,B]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism
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Chrysippus is wrong to believe in non-occurring future possibilities if he is a fatalist [Plutarch on Chrysippus]
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Everything is fated, either by continuous causes or by a supreme rational principle [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / b. Fate
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Fate is an eternal and fixed chain of causal events [Chrysippus]
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The Lazy Argument responds to fate with 'why bother?', but the bothering is also fated [Chrysippus, by Cicero]
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When we say events are fated by antecedent causes, do we mean principal or auxiliary causes? [Chrysippus]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 7. Compatibilism
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Destiny is only a predisposing cause, not a sufficient cause [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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