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    It is not the case that Any account of biological malfunction must be grounded in a prior theory of biological function

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    • 1.Christopher Boorse's biostatistical theory identifies malfunction through statistical species-norms without presupposing any teleological function theory.
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    • 2.A part malfunctions when its contribution to survival and reproduction falls below species-typical levels, a fact determinable by population statistics alone.
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    • 3.If malfunction can be defined statistically, then function-talk is explanatorily posterior to, not prior to, malfunction ascription.
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    • 1.Pathologists routinely identify cellular and systemic malfunctions through deviation from structural integrity before any functional role is theorized.
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    • 2.Jerome Wakefield's hybrid disorder concept shows that harmful dysfunction judgments draw on lay value assessments independent of prior biological function theory.
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    • 3.This indicates that malfunction identification is partly constituted by harm-recognition, making function theory a supplementary rather than foundational condition.
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    • 1.Malfunction is the failure to perform a function
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    • 2.To identify malfunction one must first identify what the function is
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