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The relations C (connectedness), R* (strong connectedness), R (continuity), and RC (continuity plus connectedness) have sets of person- stages as their domain and ranges. But Parfit often speaks as if persons also are in the domains and ranges of these relations --indeed his Psychological Criterion, for example, speaks this way when it says person X is continuous with Y (R&P, 207). Even though a person's existence at a time just consists in the occurrence of the events in a certain stage (so to speak), Parfit envisions a form of psychological reductionism that would not simply identify the person with the series of interrelated stages in which his or her existence consists (R&P, 211); rather personal existence is constituted by the series of interrelated stages.
let's just quietly concede that not only are we cut off in important ways from every other mind on the planet, we are at times entirely cut off from our own, as well.
let's just quietly concede that not only are we cut off in important ways from every other mind on the planet, we are at times entirely cut off from our own, as well.