Once this is acknowledged, certain traditional philosophical problems are seen not to be problems at all. “What I have been mainly arguing for is that we should acknowledge the logical primitiveness of the concept of a person and, with this, the unique logical character of certain predicates. Here’s a quote from the concluding section:
Then I did a search on the internet and found his paper, ‘Persons’ published in the Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science Vol. Strawson’s Individuals: An essay in descriptive metaphysics (1959) which discusses Strawson’s view of ‘Person’ as a ‘primitive concept’, in Chapter 3. How far is Strawson’s theory of Persons a critique of Hume’s theory of Self?
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