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    It is not the case that A life is an event but not the history of something.

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    • 1.A life is constituted by relational and narrative structures that extend beyond the biological boundary of a person's skin.
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    • 2.Dilthey and MacIntyre argue that a life gains its intelligibility only through the historical connections binding actions, intentions, and consequences across time.
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    • 3.If narrative and historical coherence are necessary for a life to be the kind of thing that can be evaluated, then a life is precisely the history of something.
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    • 1.The supporting argument conflates the biological substrate of life with the ontological category of a life as a whole.
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    • 2.Hemoglobin oxygenation and book publication are both causally indispensable to Russell's life understood as a unified biographical entity, so excluding the latter is arbitrary.
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    • 3.Aristotle's account of eudaimonia requires that a life be assessed only at its completion, presupposing that a life is an extended historical narrative, not a bounded biological event.
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    • 1.A life is a purely biological event that takes place entirely inside a person's skin.
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    • 2.Russell's life included the oxygenation of his hemoglobin molecules but not the publication of his books.
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