They are so far from being brought into the world with us, so remote from the thoughts of infancy and childhood, that I believe, upon examination it will be found that many grown men want them.
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Identity, an Idea not innate.
If IDENTITY (to instance that alone) be a native impression, and consequently so clear and obvious to us that we must needs know it even from our cradles, I would gladly be resolved by any one of seven, or seventy years old, whether a man, being a creature consisting of soul and body, be the same man when his body is changed?
Whether Euphorbus and Pythagoras, having had the same soul, were the same men, though they lived several ages asunder?
Nay, whether the cock too, which had the same soul, were not the same, with both of them?
Whereby, perhaps, it will appear that our idea of SAMENESS is not so settled and clear as to deserve to be thought innate in us.

For if those innate ideas are not clear and distinct, so as to be universally known and naturally agreed on, they cannot be subjects of universal and undoubted truths, but will be the unavoidable occasion of perpetual uncertainty.

For, I suppose every one's idea of identity will not be the same that Pythagoras and thousands of his followers have.

And which then shall be true?
Which innate?
Or are there two different ideas of identity, both innate?
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