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    Supports→Being alive consists in having the capacity to engage in vital activities, not in actually engaging in them.

    There is a difference between having the capacity to engage in vital activities and actually engaging in them, just as there is a difference between having the ability to run and actually running.

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    Actualization (or actually engaging)(as used in distinguishing between potential and reality)
    The difference between being able to do something and really doing it—turning potential into real action.
    Potentiality vs. Actuality(as used in metaphysics and the philosophy of human nature)
    Potentiality means having the power to do something; actuality means you're really doing it. The statement is exploring the philosophical difference between these two states.
    Vital activities(as used in philosophy of human nature)
    Actions or behaviors that are essential to living a full human life, like thinking, creating, or moving.

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    capacity(Theory of capacity)
    A subject's ability to make decisions, assessed by paradigm examples and the presence of necessary (and possibly sufficient) abilities.

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    It is one thing to have the capacity to engage in vital activities and another actually to engage in them, just as there is a difference between having the ability to run and actually running. Being alive seems to involve the former. It consists in having the relevant capacity. To die is to lose this capacity. We can call this the loss of life account of death.

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