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remains the same throughout a person’s lifetime. Buckareff and Wagenen’ s criticisms and thought
experiments conspicuously demonstrate the weakness of the first assumption. This paper
establishes that the second assumption also does not accurately reflect the nature of identity — given
a person’s lived experience of change and t ransformation. In addition, the paper proves that
identity can be viewed as a perduring entity and understanding identity as such solves the problems
with Baker’s account. Finally, the paper discusses and resolves some possible criticisms regarding
the perduring account of identity to demonstrate that reincarnation is metaphysically possible.
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