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    It is not the case that The causal powers of disease entities are in principle fully explicable in terms of the states and interactions of fundamental qualities

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    • 1.Emergent biological properties, as argued by Aristotle and later Mill, can exhibit causal powers irreducible to their material constituents.
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    • 2.Galen's own humoral teleology treats the body as a unified purposive system whose pathological states require functional, not merely elemental, explanation.
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    • 3.If disease powers require teleological description to be fully explained, they cannot in principle be exhausted by non-teleological quality interactions.
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    • 1.Galen's recognition of individualized treatment protocols entails that disease causal powers are context-sensitive in ways that resist universal reduction.
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    • 2.Context-sensitivity of causal powers, as Cartwright argues in 'Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement,' is incompatible with strict reductive explanatory programs.
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    • 1.Fevers and other diseases take hold and function according to a complex rationale
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    • 2.Individual differences in fevers and their indicated treatments are explicable in terms of fundamental qualities
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    • 3.The best interpretation of Galen's picture is that disease causal powers reduce to fundamental quality interactions, even if the complex hypothetical account is not spelled out
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