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    Conceptual analysis alone cannot decide between competing analyses of disease because contending parties will be led by differing intuitions to accept different stipulations as reasonable.

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    • 1.Conceptual analysis always involves a stipulative element concerning controversial or borderline cases.
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    • 2.Different parties will be led by their intuitions to see different stipulations as reasonable.
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    • 3.Multiple competing analyses can all be reasonably successful at capturing core cases.
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    • 1.Reflective equilibrium, as developed by Rawls and applied by Daniels to health, allows intuitions to be revised through coherence with principles.
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    • 2.When intuitions conflict, systematic theoretical constraints can adjudicate between them without collapsing into mere stipulation.
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    • 3.Therefore, divergent intuitions signal the need for deeper theoretical work, not the impossibility of conceptual resolution.
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    • 1.Boorse's biostatistical theory grounds disease concepts in species-typical functioning, providing an objective, non-stipulative standard independent of evaluative intuitions.
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    • 2.If at least one competing analysis successfully anchors contested cases to empirical biological norms rather than rival intuitions, then intuition-divergence does not preclude rational adjudication.
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    Competing analyses(as used in philosophical methodology)
    Different attempts to explain or break down the same thing in opposite or conflicting ways, where each explanation claims to be the right one.
    conceptual analysis(Jackson 1998a, 28)
    The activity of elucidating our original shared understanding of a target expression, showing that a putative reduction respects the original meaning of that expression.
    intuition(Kant, Prolegomena 4:286)
    In Kant's usage, immediate sensory or spatial awareness that is not reducible to conceptual thought; the mode by which the distinction between right and left is apprehended.
    stipulation(in philosophy and formal reasoning)
    A choice or assumption you decide to make for the sake of an argument, rather than something that must be true by logical necessity.

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    Revisionist naturalists argue that facts about physiological and psychological functioning, like other biological facts, obtain independently of human conceptions of the world. Our intuitions might tell us that a condition is not a disease. But scientific inquiry might conclude that people with the condition are really suffering from a biological malfunction. In that case, a conservative would recommend finessing the analysis to ensure that the concept of disease does not cover this case. A revi
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