Thomas Reid argued in 1785 that the identity of persons over time is not a matter of convention or degree, unlike the identity of other complex substances, suggesting the self is a different kind of entity from any physical body.

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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• Thomas Reid entity