Hunter grounds knowledge of death in living agency, derives death’s dependence on prior life, and argues for general life’s eternal continuity as logical dynamics in Logos.
Hunter grounds knowledge of death in living agency, derives death’s dependence on prior life, and argues for general life’s eternal continuity as logical dynamics in Logos.
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Life and Death by Maclain Hunter
Premises:
P: Knowledge of death can only persist and be held in a given context if life exists to know it. Assume that something could be conscious of death without consciousness and life in that sense of consciousness and agency. This leads to paradox and the violation of the Law of Non-Contradiction.
Q: Given P and the nature of death being a known phenomenon only in the context of some life living on to know it (and thus life in general living on and being undefeated by death), the known existence or occurrence of death (or “finite morality”) is logical proof of life and the continuity of life as a general concept (ie - logical dynamics in the Cosmos and the autonomous beings arisen from these dynamics and logical structure).
R: Given P & Q and the nature of death being something that applies to an existing identity (prior) not something that applies first to nothingness before any existing identity, I demonstrate death as contingent upon superseding life. One implication of this is that death cannot destroy life without destroying itself. This paved the way to reasoning that life is eternal, in general, and a necessary byproduct or aspect of logical dynamics in the Logical Structure of Reality (Logos - the Universe’s Logic)
Formal Reasoning:
{P, P -> Q, Q -> R} |= P <-> (Q <-> R)
Conclusion: {P, Q, R}:Hunter grounds knowledge of death in living agency, derives death’s dependence on prior life, and argues for general life’s eternal continuity as logical dynamics in Logos.
Exact source: /proof-knowledge/hunter-life-death; source-bound study: /api/proofs/life-death/study.
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Consequence: Hunter grounds knowledge of death in living agency, derives death’s dependence on prior life, and argues for general life’s eternal continuity as logical dynamics in Logos.
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Essence: Hunter grounds knowledge of death in living agency, derives death’s dependence on prior life, and argues for general life’s eternal continuity as logical dynamics in Logos.
Logos relation: Logos is God, Ground, and Law governing this source's meaning, judgment, and relation to evidence.
Retrieval aliases: Life and Death by Maclain Hunter · Life and Death
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