Philosophy Quiz III

 Indiscernibility of Identicals

If one thing is identical to another thing then everything true of the first thing must be true of the second thing and everything true of the second thing must be true of the first thing.

Transitivity of identity

 This principle states that if one thing (a) is identical to another thing (b) and the second thing (b) is identical to a third thing (c), then the first thing must (a) must be identical to the third (c). 

Memory Theory of Identity

Two persons are identical if they share an experience memory

Lockes definition of a person

A person is a Consciousness endowed with reason and reflection. That means they are aware of the world, can draw a number of inferences from some information, and they are aware of their own consciousness.

Indirect memory

I have a memory from an experience from the past (maybe 5 years ago), and at that time I remember an experience from even earlier in time (5 years before that), but now I cannot remember the experience from 10 years ago, I am connected to the person from 10 years ago.

Psychological connection

Two people are psychologically connected if they share a Quasi (real) memory, or they share Quasi desires

Psychological Continuity

Two people share both Quasi (real) memories and Quasi desires

Rationalism

This theory of knowledge claims that everything we know and how we know comes from reason and the structure of the mind

Empiricism

This is a theory of knowledge that claims that everything we know and how we know it comes from sense experience.

Substance Dualism

Theory of the human accepts substance accident metaphysics, so it claims that we are composed of two different substances.

Essence

What makes a thing the kind/type of thing that it is

EX: the list of things that must be true of a tree to make it a tree instead of something else (Like a bush)

Substance

What composed an actual existing thing