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    It is not the case that If the meaning of 'survival after death' is fixed by its role in religious practice and lived language rather than metaphysics, then metaphysical frameworks may distort rather than clarify the inquiry.

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    • 1.Distinguishing 'meaning in practice' from underlying metaphysics presupposes they're separable, but practice commits practitioners to metaphysical claims.
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    • 2.If survival after death has no metaphysical content, dismissing metaphysical inquiry abandons the actual question believers care about most.
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    • 3.Linguistic clarity about how believers use 'survival' doesn't explain whether the referent exists—a question metaphysics legitimately addresses.
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    • 1.Religious meaning emerges from lived practice, not abstract metaphysics, making linguistic analysis more revelatory than ontological frameworks.
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    • 2.Metaphysical systems impose external conceptual structures that obscure how believers actually understand and experience survival claims.
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    • 3.Language games within traditions have internal coherence independent of whether they map onto mind-body metaphysics or dualism.
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