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    If 'having-a-self' is not independently verifiable beyond... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Every living body is 'enselved' (possesses a self)

    If 'having-a-self' is not independently verifiable beyond being a posited specifier for desire, the argument is circular and cannot establish the self's existence as a distinct entity.

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    circular argument(Epistemology; the passage implicitly describes begging the question)
    An argument that includes its own conclusion as one of its premises
    distinct entity(ontology (the study of what exists))
    Something that exists as its own separate thing, clearly different from everything else around it.
    independently verifiable(epistemology (how we know things are true))
    Able to be proven true or confirmed as real without relying on assumptions or beliefs—like how you can verify a coin is real by testing it, rather than just trusting someone's word.
    posited(philosophy of logic)
    Suggested or assumed to exist as a way to solve a problem, without proof that it actually does exist.
    specifier(Technical term in the causal analysis of desire)

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