Single Idea 17585

[catalogued under 27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 2. Life]

Full Idea

Individual human lives are infected with vagueness at both ends. ...But could there be a 'borderline life'?

Gist of Idea

Life is vague at both ends, but could it be totally vague?

Source

Peter van Inwagen (Material Beings [1990], 18)

Book Reference

Inwagen,Peter van: 'Material Beings' [Cornell 1995], p.238


A Reaction

Van Inwagen says (p.239) that there may be wholly vague lives, though it would suit his case better if there were not.