Before Saul Kripke's work in 1972/1980, philosophers generally believed in contingent identity, which made the transition from the possibility of a mind existing without a body to the conclusion that the mind is a different entity from the body seem invalid.

Authors

• Person: Howard Robinson Organization: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition)

Sources

• Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Howard Robinson · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy via serper

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• mind concept
• body concept
• Saul Kripke entity