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    Challenges→The asymmetry in our attitudes toward prenatal and posthumous nonexistence shows that we are more concerned about the indefinite continuation of our lives than about their indefinite extension.

    Therefore, the asymmetry tracks the structure of desire and anticipation, not a deep preference for continuation, undermining the claim's inference from attitude to underlying concern.

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    Key Terms

    Anticipation(Heidegger's analytic of Dasein's temporality)
    Authentic projection; the predominantly futural aspect of authentic temporalizing
    Attitude (philosophical)(as used in philosophy of mind and epistemology)
    A mental stance or disposition—basically, how you're inclined to think or feel about something, which might reveal deeper values.
    Underlying concern(as used in ethics and philosophy of mind)
    A deeper worry, value, or priority that exists beneath the surface of what someone explicitly says or does.
    asymmetry(Modal logic frame semantics)
    A frame property expressible in hybrid logic by the formula c→□¬◇c, meaning if world x accesses world y, then y does not access x.
    desire(Plato's account of desire in the Meno and Symposium)

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    A motivational state analogous to hunger — a felt lack or want directed toward its object
    inference(Nyāya epistemology)
    A component of epistemology in Nyāya philosophy; a veritable inference yields knowledge about the world and must have premises that are themselves known

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