nonidentity problem

noun

Etymology

The articulation of the problem is credited to Derek Parfit in his work Reasons and Persons.

Definitions

  1. the philosophical problem involving our ethical obligations to future persons which…

    the philosophical problem involving our ethical obligations to future persons which derives from the observation that different courses of action will result in entirely different, or nonidentical, persons coming to be.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nonidentity problem. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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