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cord-306056-4jx0u7js	Sulmasy, Daniel P.	“Diseases and Natural Kinds”	2005		.txt	text/plain	9602	523	54	(3) The aim of this classification must be to provide at least a provisional basis for explaining the causes and/or natural history of a disturbance in the internal biological relations of the affected members of X (and, if X is a self-reflective natural kind, can serve as an explanation of the illness of those so affected), (4) and at least some individuals of whom (or which) this class of states of affairs can be predicated are, by virtue of that state, inhibited from flourishing as Xs. I must further explicate this fairly dense definition. H. Setting as the telos the flourishing of the individual as the kind of thing that it is also explains why it can be controversial to classify as diseases certain patterns of variation in the law-like biological principles that determine the characteristic development and typical history of a living natural kind.	./cache/cord-306056-4jx0u7js.txt	./txt/cord-306056-4jx0u7js.txt