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    It is not the case that There is reason to think that a person's survival of death is logically possible.

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.Mind-body dualism faces the interaction problem: if mind is non-physical, it cannot causally interact with the physical body (Princess Elisabeth, Ryle).
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    • 2.A theory that cannot coherently explain mind-body interaction during life provides no principled basis for personal identity after bodily death.
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    • 3.Without a coherent account of identity persistence, 'survival of death' names no logically determinate possibility.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Parfit's reductionist view entails that personal identity consists in physical and psychological continuity relations, not a further separately existing entity.
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    • 2.If no separately existing entity constitutes the person, then the concept of 'survival' after total physical discontinuity is logically empty rather than merely empirically uncertain.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.If there is reason to think that mind-body dualism is true, then there is reason to think that a person's survival of death is logically possible.
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    • 2.There is reason to think that mind-body dualism is true.
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