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    It is not the case that A sufficiently full account of internal and external low-level conditions should be fully predictive of disease outcome

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    • 1.Biological systems exhibit sensitive dependence on initial conditions such that complete specification of low-level states is practically unattainable.
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    • 2.Predictive sufficiency requires not just causal completeness but also tractable measurement, which complex living systems systematically resist.
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    • 3.Galen himself acknowledges individual variation (idiosyncratic constitution) as a genuine causal factor irreducible to universal antecedent conditions.
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    • 1.Aristotle's formal and final causes operate at levels of organization that cannot be fully captured by aggregating material antecedent conditions.
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    • 2.Disease outcomes are partly constituted by teleological norms of species-typical function, making purely low-level causal accounts incomplete by design.
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    • 1.Preceding and antecedent causes, understood in sufficient detail, determine disease outcome
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    • 2.Galen holds that understanding preceding and antecedent causes constitutes understanding disease
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