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    Challenges→Accidents of the organism's body can remain after the organism's death, even if Scotus does not posit a forma corporeitatis.

    If post-mortem organs are not numerically identical to ante-mortem organs, any accidents they bear are new accidents of new substances, not retained accidents of the organism's body.

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    Key Terms

    Accident (in philosophy)(as used in metaphysics)
    A property or quality that something has but doesn't need to have—like how a car is red, but it could have been blue instead.
    Ante-mortem(as used in philosophy of death)
    Latin phrase meaning 'before death'; used to describe something that happens while someone is still alive but in preparation for dying.
    Numerically identical(as used to describe whether two agents are the exact same person)
    Being literally the same thing, not just similar or alike—like how the person you are today is numerically identical to the person you were yesterday (one and the same individual).
    Post-mortem(as used to describe the time after someone's death)
    The Latin phrase meaning 'after death'; refers to the period after someone has died.

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    Substance (in philosophy)(as used in metaphysics)
    The underlying thing that has properties; the core 'stuff' that remains the same even when its qualities change—like how a person is still 'themselves' even if they dye their hair.
    retained(describing what contingency consists of)
    Kept or held onto—in this case, the specific details and experiences that consciousness holds or remembers.

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