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    Humans in unknown realms are mortal — Carmelics
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    Humans in unknown realms are mortal

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    • 1.Humans in the known realm are mortal qua humans
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    • 2.Mortality is a necessary property of being human
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    • 3.If a property belongs to a thing qua what it is, that property belongs to all instances of that thing
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    • 1.Mortality as a biological fact is contingent on specific physical conditions, not analytically entailed by the concept 'human'.
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    • 2.Kripkean essentialism permits biological kinds to have different modal profiles in counterfactual environments with altered physical laws.
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    • 3.Humans in realms with radically different physical constants could lack the entropic processes constitutive of biological death.
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    • 1.Philodemus's own method of sign-inference requires observed co-variation across cases, which unknown realms by definition cannot supply.
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    • 2.The inference from 'all observed humans are mortal' to 'all possible humans are mortal' commits the modal fallacy of inferring necessity from universality.
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    Perhaps, however, the important point is rather that SM sign-inference is concerned with the relation between an individual object and its properties, a relation of metaphysical necessity (e.g., §1, viii 32–6; §4, xxxiii 35, xxxv 22–9). It is these necessary properties that epilogismos seeks to identify (e.g., §1, xvii 3–11; §4, xxxv 4–31) and that sign-inference should project: they help constitute the nature of a thing (cf. §1, xv 11–12; §3, xxiv 6–8). When he rebuts the opponents’ objection t
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