1. Identifying and Analyzing Life
... may have a tail but not be a unicorn. In addition to revealing essence by expressing necessary and sufficient conditions, it is necessary for the definition to be univocal, extensionally adequate, and epistemically serviceable. To be univocal, it must be unambiguous. Ambiguity is defined as a property of a linguistic ... bees. These animals are regarded as alive but by trying to use conceptual analysis to define life, there are counter examples. As the definition of life currently stands: a chemical structure that resists entropy and participates in darwinian evolution, there are some p...
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