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    Challenges→Judgments of illness require both the right causal antecedents and value judgments about the effects of those causes

    A purely descriptive causal-functional account preserves scientific objectivity that hybrid causal-evaluative accounts systematically undermine.

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    • 1.Evaluative terms (good, bad, harmful) introduce observer-dependent values that vary across cultures and individuals, compromising intersubjective agreement.
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    • 2.Causal-functional descriptions map onto reproducible physical mechanisms that remain constant regardless of the evaluator's moral framework or preferences.
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    • 3.Hybrid accounts risk circular reasoning: using evaluative judgments to define causal roles, then treating those roles as objective justification for the evaluations.
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    • 1.Pure causal-functional accounts cannot explain why we care about some causal relationships but not others without smuggling in suppressed normative assumptions.
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    • 2.Scientific objectivity requires representing what is actually true about phenomena; if evaluative properties are real features of human contexts, excluding them undermines accuracy.
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    • 3.The selection of which causal-functional facts to describe is itself theory-laden; purely descriptive accounts mask rather than eliminate evaluative background commitments.
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