English Dictionary

personal identity

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(philosophy) The criteria for the persistence of persons over time (i.e what makes one the same person as one was yesterday, or ten years ago), and the criteria for the individuation of persons from others.

日本語の意味

人物が時間を経ても同一であり続けるための基準、すなわち、その人が昨日あるいは十年前と同一人物であることを可能にする理由と、その基準によって個々が他者と区別されるという哲学的概念

Philosophers debate whether memory, consciousness, or the body are the best grounds for personal identity.

哲学者たちは、記憶や意識、身体のどれが個人の同一性を支持する最良の根拠であるかを議論している。

意味（1）

(philosophy) The criteria for the persistence of persons over time (i.e what makes one the same person as one was yesterday, or ten years ago), and the criteria for the individuation of persons from others.

It was largely in order to defend the justice of divine rewards and punishments in the face of his own relative agnosticism about substantial souls that Locke offered his reductive empiricist analysis of personal identity in terms of consciousness and memory.