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    Challenges→Multiple rival philosophical theories of human rights can support the inclusion of health as a human right.

    When rival theories converge on a right only by radically reinterpreting their own foundational criteria, the convergence reflects conceptual stretching rather than genuine theoretical support.

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    Conceptual stretching(as used in philosophy and logic)
    Forcing a concept or idea to apply to situations it wasn't originally designed for, making it less precise or meaningful.
    Converge(describing how existence and essence might relate for necessary beings)
    Come together or merge into the same thing; stop being separate.
    Foundational criteria(as used in philosophy of science)
    The basic principles or core beliefs that a theory is built on—the fundamental rules it uses to decide what's true or false.
    Genuine theoretical support(as used in epistemology and philosophy of science)
    Real, legitimate evidence or reasoning that actually backs up a theory's claims, rather than just appearing to do so on the surface.
    Radically reinterpreting

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    (as used in philosophy and literary interpretation)
    Changing the meaning of something so drastically that it becomes almost unrecognizable from its original form.
    Rival theories(as used in philosophy of science and epistemology)
    Different competing explanations or frameworks that try to answer the same question but reach different conclusions or use different starting assumptions.

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