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    It is not the case that When biomedical inquiry classifies a condition as disease, it implicitly borrows normative premises that empirical investigation cannot itself validate, making the appeal to 'pure science' circular.

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    • 1.Statistical deviation from population norms provides objective, empirically-discoverable criteria for disease classification without normative assumptions.
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    • 2.Harm and dysfunction have natural bases (reduced survival, reproductive capacity, organism-level malfunction) that science can investigate without circularity.
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    • 3.Cultural variation in disease classification reflects incomplete information or rational disagreement, not proof that science cannot identify real pathology.
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    • 1.Disease classification requires judgment about what counts as 'dysfunction'—a concept that presupposes values about normal human functioning.
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    • 2.Empirical data alone (symptoms, biomarkers) cannot determine whether a condition warrants medical intervention without prior normative commitments.
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    • 3.Different cultures classify identical conditions differently, suggesting normative premises vary independently of empirical facts being observed.
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