When considering whether a hypothetical person ('Jones2') created from a slightly modified sperm and the same egg would be the same person as the original 'Jones,' there are three potential answers: (i) the person either would or would not have existed, but it is unknowable; (ii) there is no fact of the matter regarding existence; or (iii) the person would have existed to some degree or in some ways, possessing an overlap of psychic constitution with the original.

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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• sperm concept
• ovum concept