John Perrys: A Theoretical Analysis

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In the following essay, I will develop my thoughts by talking about how Weirob challenges her long life friend Miller to comfort her on her death bed for three nights, about the slight possibility of her soul surviving after death. This is based on the author John Perrys’ ideas. I will also be discussing the two personal criterions that we discussed in class that I believe fit best to the passage.
The two personal criterions are numerical identity and qualitative identity. Numerical identity can be described as two things being at different times, but being the same exact thing later on in the future. Qualitative identity on the hand can be described as the relation of many things being the same thing as long as they have the same characteristics no matter what the time. An example we used in class was the two identical green camelback water bottles that and although they had the same characteristics they still were not the same exact water …show more content…

He claims that although we can not establish a legitimate connection between soul and body there are psychological examples that can be seen as facts for the body and soul being connected. Some examples of the psychological examples are sadness, the way one communicates, expressions, and etc. Weirob once again argues against this, but this time uses an analogy of a river to back her belief up. The analogy states that the river is always flowing and changing directions throughout time. This meaning that the soul can not be compared to psychological reasoning because we can’t be certain this is how it works since there is no legitimate evidence. In my opinion, Weirob does have a good point and actually has a legitimate example that can be proven unlike Miller which makes me question the two different view points because one is showing physical evidence while the other one is just stating what they

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