Rejecting substance requires defining mind as a structured group of events connected by memory.
Evidence
As for ‘mind’, when substance has been rejected a mind must be some group or structure of events. … We might—though this would be rather unduly simple—define a ‘mental’ event as one which remembers or is remembered. Then the ‘mind’ to which a given mental event belongs is the group of events connected with the given event by memory-chains, backwards or forwards. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2404
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2404
- XREF: connects to: Parmenides argued that language and thought require persistent existing objects — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 281; Language creates consciousness of self as separate from the environment.
Broader Connections
- Parmenides argued that language and thought require persistent existing objects
#contradicts(0.85) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 281 - Language creates consciousness of self as separate from the environment.
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