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The Soul: How We Know It's Real and Why It Matters is unavailable, but you can change that!

In a culture in which science is believed to hold the answers to every question, spiritual realities like the soul are often ignored or ridiculed. We are told that neuroscience holds the key to explaining every aspect of human behavior. Yet Christian philosopher J. P. Moreland argues that Scripture, sound philosophical reasoning, and everyday experience all point to the reality of an immaterial...

illustration suggests a truth about the nature of identity known as Leibniz’s Law of the Indiscernibility of Identicals (from the German philosopher G. W. Leibniz who formulated it): For any entities x and y, if x and y are identical (they are really the same thing, there is only one thing you are talking about, not two), then any truth that applies to x will apply to y as well. This suggests a test for identity: If you could find one thing true of x not true of y, or vice versa, then x cannot be identical