By Schubert Ogden
What is it to be alive?
To be alive is minimally – in minimally—in terms of structure in abstraction from content – to content—to be an individual, as distinct from an event, and, as such, to have both a settled past, in the sense of having already been somehow actualized, concretized, or particularized, and an open future, in the sense of still to be somehow further actualized, concretized, or particularized.
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