If we think of the Persistence Question as asking which of the characters introduced at the beginning of a story have survived to become the ones at the end of it, we can also ask how many are on the stage at any one time.
What determines how many of us there are now?
If there are some six billion people on the earth at present, what facts—biological, psychological, or what have you—make that the right number?
Zubia on Hume and liberalism
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