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    Restoration of life is quite different from revival. — Carmelics
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    Restoration of life is quite different from revival.

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    • 1.Something can be revived only if it is alive—only if it has the capacity to deploy vital activities.
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    • 2.Something is revived when it regains vitality.
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    • 3.Something's life can be restored only if it has lost its capacity for vital activities.
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    • 1.The capacity for vital activities admits of degrees rather than a binary present/absent state, as Aristotle's hylomorphic account of soul suggests.
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    • 2.If vitality is scalar, the threshold distinguishing 'diminished vitality' from 'lost vitality' is arbitrary, collapsing the revival/restoration distinction.
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    • 1.Parfit's reductionist account of personal identity entails that what matters in survival is psychological continuity, not the restoration of a biological capacity.
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    • 2.If biological capacity-restoration is neither necessary nor sufficient for the persistence of the entity that matters, revival and restoration are functionally equivalent under the description that is philosophically relevant.
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    Restoration in this sense is quite different from the revival of something, such as a frozen embryo, whose vital activities have been halted. Something can be revived only if it is alive—only if it has the capacity to deploy vital activities, as in the case of a frozen zygote. It is revived when it regains vitality. Something’s life can be restored only if it has lost its capacity for vital activities. Life is restored when this capacity is regained.
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    Validity: The premises accurately capture the passage's distinction between revival (presupposes the subject is still alive with capacity for vital activities) and restoration (presupposes the subject has lost its capacity for vital activities), which together rationally support the conclusion that the two concepts are quite different.

    Confidence: The text explicitly draws the distinction between revival and restoration based on differing preconditions (having vs. lacking the capacity for vital activities).

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