Hume on identity: A defense
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Jim Stone
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Article
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1981
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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In his classic article Hume on Personal Identity, Terence Penelhum charges that Hume, in maintaining that we are always mistaken in ascribing identity to persons, has made "an elementary error" and fallen victim to a conceptual "muddle". 1 Hume's error, Penelhum says, is in thinking that a successio