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, <\/em>p.275, where he adds, \u201c\u2026we can never be aware of [life] having an end \u2013 we can never know anything but life\u201d]<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDeath is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.\u201d \u2014 Wittgenstein, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,74],"tags":[418,3158,5048,6762,9084,11605,11864],"class_list":["post-7944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afterlife-theology","category-philosophy","tag-afterlife-theology","tag-eternal-life","tag-immortality","tag-ludwig-wittgenstein","tag-philosophy","tag-soul","tag-stephen-cave"],"yoast_head":"\n
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