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    It is not the case that An individual can be unhealthy even if free of disability or disease

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    • 1.Health is properly defined as normal species-typical biological functioning, as Boorse's biostatistical theory holds.
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    • 2.Any organism functioning within species-typical statistical norms is, by definition, healthy regardless of subjective vitality.
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    • 3.Therefore, 'unhealthy without disease or disability' is a category error that conflates wellness with health.
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    • 1.Nordenfelt's welfare theory holds that health is the ability to achieve vital goals under standard conditions.
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    • 2.Disability and disease are precisely the conditions that impair goal-achievement capacity under standard conditions.
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    • 3.Positing unhealthiness absent these conditions renders the health concept unmeasurable and clinically vacuous.
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    • 1.Health is a state of psychophysical flourishing or vitality
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    • 2.The absence of disability or disease does not guarantee psychophysical flourishing or vitality
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