Philosophy / Unit 5 Philosophy 0197 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Brave Officer Objection
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The idea
Reid's brave officer objection: the general remembers the officer; the officer remembered the boy; the general has lost the boy—memory's verdicts contradict.
In practice
Identity cannot come and go by forgetting: if A is B and B is C, A must be C. Memory flunks the logic.
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