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    The inference from 'corpses are never alive' to 'corpses ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Theorists who deny that an organism may continue its existence as a corpse must deny that, as concerns corpses, being dead implies having died.

    The inference from 'corpses are never alive' to 'corpses never died' equivocates between objects being alive and objects being the subject of a life-terminating event.

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    • 1.Being alive is a present state; dying is a past event. These are logically distinct categories that can't be equated.
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    • 2.A corpse lacks all properties of living things, but this tells us nothing about its causal history or what happened to it.
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    • 3.The inference illicitly moves from 'X lacks property P now' to 'X never underwent process Q', conflating state with event.
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    • 1.If something never died, it could never become a corpse—yet we define corpses as dead bodies, making the inference logically sound.
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    • 2.The only way to acquire the property 'corpse' is through dying. Denying the death event removes the only pathway to that state.
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    • 3.Present deadness necessarily entails past dying. The inference doesn't equivocate but rather traces causation backward legitimately.
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