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    Challenges→Dualist accounts of survival fail.

    The imperceptibility of souls to third-person observers does not entail that souls lack determinate identity, since mathematical objects and numbers are similarly imperceptible yet numerically distinct.

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    Entail(In logical reasoning and argumentation)
    To logically follow or guarantee as a necessary consequence; if something is true, what does it force to also be true?
    Mathematical objects(as used in philosophy of mathematics)
    Abstract things that mathematicians study, like numbers, shapes, or functions—they don't exist in the physical world, only in our minds and on paper.
    determinate identity(discussing whether souls have a definite existence)
    Having a clear, specific, and definite nature or existence—being one particular thing rather than vague or undefined.
    imperceptibility(describing souls and whether they can be observed)
    The quality of being impossible to perceive or detect through the senses—you can't see, hear, touch, taste, or smell it.
    numerically distinct

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    (Used to characterize the parts of the Form that must exist separately in each participant)
    Being distinct in the sense of being different individual tokens, not merely different in kind or quality.
    third-person observers(explaining who cannot perceive souls)
    People looking at something from the outside (like a scientist studying a phenomenon), as opposed to the person experiencing it directly themselves.

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