According to Gilmore, which of the following are all internal properties?
A) being capable of undergoing the relevant vital processes, being alive, having a temperature of 98.6 degrees F.
B) being dead, being 2 kg in mass.
C) being 2 kg in mass, having a temperature of 98.6 degrees F, having existed for more than two days.
D) being in the path of a falling boulder, having existed for more than two days, being dead
E) being alive, being capable of undergoing the relevant vital processes, being cryptobiotic, being dead.

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According to Gilmore, internal properties are those that arise from an object's internal constitution and are necessary for it to belong to a particular natural kind. Being capable of undergoing the relevant vital processes and being alive are both necessary for an object to belong to the natural kind of living things, while having a temperature of 98.6 degrees F is not necessarily a defining characteristic of living things.

According to Gilmore, Which of the Following Are All Internal