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    Challenges→It is impossible for an event that occurs after a person dies to be bad for her.

    Restricting harm to events modifying intrinsic properties of a presently existing subject illicitly conflates the metaphysics of personal identity with the logic of welfare attribution.

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    Conflate(the criticism being made in the statement)
    To mistakenly treat two different things as if they were the same thing.
    Illicitly(describing a flawed argumentative technique)
    In a way that breaks the rules of logical reasoning; sneakily using faulty logic without admitting it.
    Logic (in philosophy)(as the subject being combined)
    A system of rules for reasoning that determines what conclusions you can reliably draw from given facts or assumptions.
    Welfare attribution(as used in ethics)
    The process of deciding what counts as good or bad for someone—determining what helps or harms their well-being.
    intrinsic properties(Contrasted with structural properties revealed by physics)

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    Properties which supposedly underlie and account for the structural properties of things.
    metaphysics(Hartshorne's naturalistic redefinition of metaphysics)
    On Hartshorne's view, the study not of realities beyond the physical, but of features of reality that are ubiquitous or that would exist in any possible world.
    personal identity(Philosophy of personal identity)
    The relation of sameness holding between a person existing at one time and something existing at another time, analyzed here in terms of psychological continuity

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