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    It is not the case that Humans in unknown realms are mortal

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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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    Reasons Against

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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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