What I'm considering right now is the question whether sameness of soul is the key to being the same person.

我现在考虑的问题是,同样的灵魂,是否就是成为同一个人的关键。

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Nothing rules out the possibility that having the very same body is the key to being the very same person overtime.

一直以来，都没有依据去排除,同样的肉体是成为同一个人的关键,这个观点成立的可能。

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Still if we ask, "What's doing the metaphysical ?" work here?" What's the key to ? being the same person?

如果我们问，“这和形而上学,有什么关系,成为同一个人的关键是什么？

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You don't have to say that having the very same soul is the key to being the very same person.

你不必下结论说,只有拥有同样的灵魂,才能成为同一个人。

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And having the very same body is the key to to personal identity. It's not the same person.

而拥有同样肉体才是人格同一性的,关键，现在的并非原来那个人。

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But for all that, the key to the same person could have to do with the personality rather than the sameness of bodies.

但这个观点认为，成为同一个人的,关键是同样的人格,而不是同样的肉体。

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Well,again,remember,the soul theory says the key to being the same person is having the soul.

请再度记住，灵魂理论者说,作为一个人的标准是拥有那个人的灵魂。

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Let's refine the body view. I've been-- Suggest that the key here-- the idea whether it's the person or not is whether it's the same body.

我们来重新定义肉体论-,假设关键是-,究竟是不是同一个人的关键在于,是不是同样的肉体。

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The first, approach is this that we considered was the soul theory of personal identity, the key to being the same person is having the same soul.

首先，我们设置的前提是,人格同一性的灵魂存在论，成为同一个人的关键在于,拥有同样的灵魂。

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We were raising a difficulty for the personality theory of personal identity according to which the key to being the same person is having the very same ongoing,evolving personality.

我们给判断个人认同感的人格理论,也就是说判断是否是同一个人取决于,是否具有同样的形成中的人格这理论。

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Now the natural alternative is to say, the key to being the same person is not the sameness of the soul, whether or not it exists, ! but rather having the very same--body!

现在还有一个理论认为，成为同一个人的关键,不在于是否有同样的灵魂，先不管灵魂是否存在，而是拥有同样的--肉体！

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And if the knucklebone theory of personal identity gets proposed and somebody said, Oh,yes,but you see,that person now with that knucklebone will be you, because the key to personal identity is having the very same knucklebone.

如果个人认同感的指关节骨理论被提出，有人会说，你看，这个有着你指关节骨的人，就会成为你，因为指关节骨就是个人认同感的关键。

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We can still say the reason that we got the same personality in the normal case that some physical explanation of whether person, what houses the personality, but for all that, the key to personal identity is same personality.

我们还可以说清楚,在一般情况下如何得到,同样的人格，我们得弄清楚,是什么储存了人格,但是首先我们得认可,人格同一性的关键在于同样的人格。

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