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    Challenges→Scientific biomedical inquiry may determine that a condition is a disease even when human intuition says it is not, and in such cases we should accept that judgment rather than revise the concept to exclude it.

    A concept that systematically overrides the harm-based intuitions of affected persons loses its justificatory authority, since those intuitions track the normative core that makes disease attributions actionable.

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    Key Terms

    Actionable(as used in applied ethics)
    Something that can or should lead to actual steps or decisions; something that creates a reason to do something concrete.
    Disease attributions(as used in philosophy of medicine and ethics)
    The act of labeling something as a disease or sickness; deciding whether a condition counts as a medical problem.
    Harm-based intuitions(as used in ethics)
    Our immediate gut feelings about what causes damage or suffering to people; the instinctive sense that hurting someone is wrong.
    Justificatory authority(as used in ethics and epistemology)
    The right or credibility something has to convince us it's correct or legitimate; if an idea loses this, we have good reason to reject it.
    Normative core

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    The central idea about what *should* be done or what makes something right or wrong; the fundamental value at the heart of something.
    Track (in the philosophical sense)(as used in epistemology)
    To reliably correspond to or reflect the truth of something; intuitions 'track' what's real when they point us toward what's actually true.

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