With the advancement of psychical research and parapsychology, the possibility of postmortem survival of consciousness has been debated by not just by researchers in the field but also prominent philosophers such as C.D. Broad and H.H. Price. Recently, Sudduth (2016) presented a very detailed philosophical examination of the long-lasting arguments within the framework of confirmation theory, which aims to provide a way to determine which one of competing hypotheses is the best account for the

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... ven evidence or when one hypothesis over another is supported by the evidence. He concluded that the arguments for the survival hypothesis are untenable by pointing out that the advocates of the survival hypothesis failed to