So the problem of existence through time,or persistence through time, shouldn't be called the problem of personal identity,but just the problem of identity.

所以积年累月下来存在的问题，就不该叫做个人认同感的问题，而仅是认同感的问题。

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If this was a class in which we were going to worry about the general problem of identity across time, this would be a problem we'd have to directly face.

如果我们要讨论的是,贯穿时间的,质的总的问题，我们就需要,直面这个问题。

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But since we are only looking at enough of the problem of identity to get to the question that we really want to think about, the nature of personal identity across time, I'm not going to pursue that.

但由于我们只是,通过质的问题,来讨论,我们真正关注的问题，也就是贯穿时间的人格同一性，所以我不讨论那些。

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But notice that that label,personal identity, the problem of personal identity, seems to have built into it the assumption that whatever it is that's me is going to be a person.

但请注意这个标签，个人认同感，个人认同感的问题，似乎是建立在这样一个假设上,无论我是什么，都将是一个人。

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