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- From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- Subject: Re: Life begins at ...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.092455.2849@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom. San Jose, California
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 09:24:55 GMT
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- Kurt Ludwick <KEL111@psuvm.psu.edu> writes ...
- >Of course not. The whole idea I don't understand is that an individual's
- >life doesn't begin, but it ends. You can't use multiple definitions of 'life'
- >at once: first to mean an individual life, and second to mean life in general
- >(which has no beginning and no ending). One has clear beginnings and endings,
- >the other does not.
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- It may be that the term "individual life" is incorrect. It is more
- likely that the claiming that such has a clear beginning is incorrect.
-
- Just what is an "individual life" supposed to be?
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