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A note on Huemer's claim to immortality
Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Integrative Medical Biology (IMB). (Inge-Bert Täljedal)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3030-2953
2020 (English)In: Principia: an International Journal of Epistemology, ISSN 1414-4247, E-ISSN 1808-1711, Vol. 24, no 3, p. 657-659Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

According to Huemer (2019), existence is evidence of immortality, provided past time is infinite. The argument is based on, inter alia, an alleged contradiction between the fact of one’s existence now and its improbability. I suggest that Huemer’s argument is flawed in equating the infinitesimally small with its limit value, and in assuming a philosophically significant difference between the a priori probability of the occurrence of a unique incarnation and that of anyone among an infinite number.

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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina , 2020. Vol. 24, no 3, p. 657-659
Keywords [en]
existence, immortality, infinitesimals, infinity, probability, recurrence
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-177886DOI: 10.5007/1808-1711.2020v24n3p657Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85098973882OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-177886DiVA, id: diva2:1511717
Available from: 2020-12-20 Created: 2020-12-20 Last updated: 2023-03-24Bibliographically approved

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