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    Supports→Philosophers should aim to naturalize disease by first understanding general features of theories in the medical sciences and then seeking perspicuous and coherent accounts of different disease types, rather than relying on traditional conceptual analysis.

    Some diagnoses may represent contingent historical outcomes that have produced incoherent categories.

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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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