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    Systemic concepts of function do permit attributions of malfunction.

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    • A token component is malfunctioning when it cannot play the role that lets other tokens of the same type feature in the explanation of the larger system.
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    • 1.Systemic explanations of biological wholes are multiply realizable, so no single token component has a privileged 'role' against which deviation counts as malfunction.
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    • 2.Without a normative standard external to the system itself, variance from a statistical role is mere difference, not malfunction—Boorse's biostatistical theory illustrates this collapse.
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    • 1.Cummins's systemic account defines function purely relationally—as causal contribution to system capacity—leaving no resources to distinguish malfunction from alternative contribution.
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    • 2.A heart producing arrhythmic contractions still causally contributes to circulatory system explanation, so on systemic grounds it cannot be classified as malfunctioning rather than differently functioning.
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    Godfrey-Smith (1993) argues that systemic concepts of function do permit attributions of malfunction. He argues that a token component in a system is malfunctioning when it cannot play the role that lets other tokens of the same type feature in the explanation of the larger system. Davies (2003, 212) denies this. He says that functional types are defined in terms of what they can do and that if a component cannot carry out its normal contribution to the overall system then it ceases to be a memb
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