Because the same individual organism's death can simultaneously constitute a drift event and a selection event under different descriptions, the distinction is description-relative, not ontological.

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Description-relative(as used in philosophy of language and metaphysics): Depending on how you describe or label something—the same event might count as one thing under one description and a different thing under another description.
Drift event(as used in biology and philosophy of science): A change in a population that happens by pure chance rather than because of natural selection—like if random individuals happen to survive and reproduce more, shifting what traits are common in a group.
Ontological: "Ontological" refers to questions about what actually exists or is real. It's concerned with the fundamental nature of being—asking "What kinds of things are there?" rather than "How do we know about them?" For example, an ontological question might be whether numbers, ideas, or God actually exist as real things, or if they're just human inventions.
Selection event(as used in biology and philosophy of science): A change in a population because certain traits help organisms survive and reproduce better than others, so those traits become more common over time.

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