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    Challenges→Teleological theories are committed to claims about value.

    If teleological theories can be fully naturalized, their apparent commitment to evaluative facts dissolves into descriptive claims about natural states.

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    • 1.Natural selection explains goal-directed behavior without invoking purposes, reducing teleology to mechanistic processes describable in physics.
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    • 2.If evaluative facts were irreducible, they would require non-natural properties, violating physicalism accepted in successful sciences.
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    • 3.Organizational states (e.g., homeostasis) can be fully characterized descriptively without referencing values or normativity.
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    • 1.Naturalization describes how systems work mechanistically, but doesn't eliminate the normativity of 'should function this way' claims.
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    • 2.Facts about natural purposes (e.g., heart's function) seem conceptually distinct from descriptive regularities—explanation requires evaluative framing.
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    • 3.Complete naturalization requires reducing normativity itself, not just explaining systems; this reduction may be conceptually impossible or circular.
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