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    Supports→Scientific biomedical inquiry may determine that a condition is a disease even when human intuition says it is not, and in such cases we should accept that judgment rather than revise the concept to exclude it.

    Scientific inquiry can conclude that people with a condition are suffering from a biological malfunction even when intuitions suggest otherwise.

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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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