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In the article “In The Search of a True Self”, the author, Prof. Joshua Knobe, puts the hypothesis of the concept of a true self to the test. The author is trying to answer the question of “How can a person know the connection between an individual’s own values and the different judgments about the true self?”
The professor tries to answer the question by asserting that the understanding of the true self of the people involves value judgment, that is, a judgment about the kind of lives people finds worth living. He is trying to demonstrate the relationship between the value judgement and the true self.
He defended his point by using Mark Pierpont’s

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