In Perry’s Frist Night Readings, Sam Miller suggests the principle of “same body, same soul”. He states that, “I can see that it is the same body before me now that was across the table at Dorsey’s. And I know that the same soul is connected with the body now that was connected with it before” (Perry 8). Sam sees the same physical body of Gretchen in front of him today that was in front of him at lunch last week and therefore attaches a single soul to the body present on these two occasions.
Gretchen offers Sam a chocolate and then asks why he chose the piece of chocolate he selected. Sam responds that it has a swirl that identifies it as a caramel chocolate. Sam recognizes that, “we see the outer wrapping and infer what is inside” (Perry
