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    Supports→Annihilation diminishes the pleasures of those in Heaven

    The permanent annihilation of a person constitutes an irreversible metaphysical privation, which differs qualitatively from temporary suffering and cannot be consoled by hope of restoration.

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    Key Terms

    Irreversible(describing ecological losses that are permanent)
    Something that cannot be undone or brought back to how it was before.
    Privation(Fârâbî uses privation to link deficiency to potentiality: to be deprived of F entails the potentiality to be F.)
    The absence or lack of a property or perfection that a being is of the kind to possess.
    Qualitatively(as used in epistemology)
    Relating to the nature or quality of something rather than its amount or size—like how red and blue are qualitatively different colors, not just different shades of the same thing.
    annihilation(as what the self seeks to escape through)
    Complete destruction or elimination; ceasing to exist entirely.
    consoled(suggesting that hope cannot ease the pain of permanent death)

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    metaphysical(Ayer's Logical Positivist usage)
    Language that purports to refer beyond the physical world and lacks empirical consequences, which Ayer classifies as not literally significant

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