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    Supports→The problem of what is in the state of being dead cannot be solved by saying that upon dying an organism leaves a corpse and it is the corpse that is in the state of being dead.

    Attributing the state of being dead to the corpse rather than the organism merely displaces, rather than resolves, the metaphysical question of what subject bears the death-predicate.

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    Corpse(as used in metaphysics)
    A dead body—the physical remains of a living organism after death.
    Death-predicate(as used in logic and metaphysics)
    The property or characteristic of 'being dead'—basically, the quality we're assigning to something when we say it is dead.
    Metaphysical question(contrasted with causal-historical questions)
    A question about what something fundamentally *is* or what actually exists in reality—in this case, what species really are at their core.
    Organism(as what the argument is discussing)
    Any living thing, like a plant, animal, or human being—something that's alive and can grow, reproduce, and respond to its environment.
    predicate(Logical/grammatical ontology in Eisagoge)

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