For the best criticism of Locke's doctrine of Personal Identity, I may, however, refer the reader to M.
Mr. Locke, writing on personal identity, has fallen short of his usual accuracy.
Fact is, your Honor, it is unnecessary to enter into an investigation of the circumstances connected with the murder of Mr. Clanton, as this is purely a question of personal identity.
The district attorney consented that the investigation might be confined to the question of personal identity.
Medical men are absolutely the only persons qualified to assist in resolving the really delicate question of personal identity; yet the physician and the lawyer pursue the same line of logic and of inquiry.
The question of personal identity is one of the hardest that could possibly come before a court.
Professor Hering insists on this too, but he gives us farther insight into what personal identity is, and explains how it is that the phenomena of heredity are phenomena also of personal identity.
But then, it is not the feeling of personal identity that constitutes the person.
For, it being the same consciousness that makes a man be himself to himself, personal identity depends on that only, whether it be annexed solely to one individual substance, or can be continued in a succession of several substances.
My personal identity, therefore, implies the continued existence of that indivisible thing which I call myself.
That consensus or agreement of many organic sensations which is a fundamental element in our conception of personal identity.
It being the same consciousness that makes a man be himself to himself, personal identity depends on that only.
As to personal identity, Leibniz distinguishes between "physical or real" identity and "moral.
It would seem to follow from these errors in imaginatively filling up our past life, that our consciousness of personal identityis by no means the simple and exact process which it is commonly supposed to be.
If such remarks as the above hold good at all, they do so with the words "personal identity.
It remains, therefore, to show the when and where of their having done so, and this leads us naturally to the subject of the following chapter--Personal Identity.
Surely my memory, my irresistible conviction of personal identity with my past makes it abundantly clear that "I" am a mysterious unchanging spiritual being behind this ever changing brain.
Personal identity of course postulates memory which binds into one the old life and the new.
Surely, first of all I must be conscious of myself, conscious of the continuity of my personal identity, conscious of the continuity of my personal character.
We now proceed to explain the nature of personal identity, which has become so great a question ill philosophy, especially of late years in England, where all the abstruser sciences are studyed with a peculiar ardour and application.
This relation I here consider as applied in its strictest sense to constant and unchangeable objects; without examining the nature and foundation of personal identity, which shall find its place afterwards.
As a memory alone acquaints us with the continuance and extent of this succession of perceptions, it is to be considered, upon that account chiefly, as the source of personal identity.
Complete surrender would involve somehow a disintegration, a dissociation of his personality that carried with it the loss of personal identity.
It somehow threatened my sense of personal identity.
You escaped this madness just as I did, and you will realize what I mean when I say that the sensation of losing my sense of personal identity became so dangerously, so seductively strong.
He was in the very act of being carried away; his sense of personal identity menaced; surrender well-nigh already complete.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "personal identity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
