Why Does Schechtman Think That Psychological-Continuity Theorists Have Gotten into the Trouble

question 109

Multiple Choice

Why does Schechtman think that psychological-continuity theorists have gotten into the trouble they're in?

• A) Because they haven't been careful enough in thinking about memory
• B) Because they haven't connected the body to personal identity
• C) Because they've wrongly taken themselves to be answering the question of reidentification
• D) Because they rely on abstruse thought experiments

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