But if death means permanent cessation of P-functioning, then it turns out the dead weren't really dead after all.

但如果死亡指的是人格功能性的永久停止，那就说明死者并非死去。

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So the proposal that death is a matter of permanent cessation of P-functioning versus temporary, that doesn't seem like it's going to do the trick.

所以说死亡只永久地,停止人格功能性的这个说法，也不是正确的。

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And to be dead then, is to be unable to engage in P-functioning.

而死亡就是，失去了人格功能性。

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If we say that to be a person is to be a P-functioning body, it seems then as though we have to conclude that when you're not P-functioning, you're dead.

如果说人是一个有人格功能性的实体，似乎就能得出以下结论,如果你没有人格功能性，你就是死亡的。

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