nonidentity problem

English

Etymology

The articulation of the problem is credited to Derek Parfit in his work Reasons and Persons.

Noun

nonidentity problem

  1. (philosophy) the philosophical problem involving our ethical obligations to future persons which derives from the observation that different courses of action will result in entirely different, or nonidentical, persons coming to be.
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