From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Nov 12 2002 - 18:25:11 MST
Lee Corbin wrote:
> As for me, I can only put my identity on a continuum and
> say that I'm not the same person that I was at age 8, but
> am mostly the same person I was at age 25, and definitely
> the same person I was ten years ago.
If you are, say, 40, then your statement amounts to the following:
"As for me, I can only say that this age number of which I am thinking
exists on a continuum and that it is not #8. This age number of which I
am thinking is a number greater than #12.5 (it's mostly the same as
#25), and it is definitely #30 (it's the same person I was 10 years
ago). Therefore I am thinking of #30 and every other number greater than
or less than #30 is not the age number I am thinking of."
Numbers in a succession change from one to the next just as the
identities of people change from one to the next. But so what, Lee?
-gts
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