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    It is not the case that The problem of what is in the state of being dead cannot be solved by saying that upon dying an organism leaves a corpse and it is the corpse that is in the state of being dead.

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    • 1.Some organisms do not leave corpses.
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    • 2.What corpses are left eventually disintegrate.
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    • 3.Whether an organism leaves a corpse or not, and whether its corpse exists or not, if that organism dies at time t and does not regain life then it is dead after t.
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    • 1.A corpse is a distinct biological entity from the organism that died, not a continuation of it.
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    • 2.Predicating 'dead' of a corpse commits a category error: corpses are not the kind of thing that can be alive or dead.
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    • 3.If corpses cannot be alive, they cannot meaningfully be in the state of being dead, leaving the original problem unsolved.
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    • 1.Death is a relational state that must be predicated of the same entity that previously possessed life, as Aristotle's hylomorphism requires continuity of form for predication.
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    • 2.A corpse lacks the organizational form (psyche) that constituted the organism, making it numerically distinct from the deceased organism.
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    • 3.Attributing the state of being dead to the corpse rather than the organism merely displaces, rather than resolves, the metaphysical question of what subject bears the death-predicate.
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