beoShaffer comments on Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ACuriousMan 25 September 2012 10:52:08PM 0 points [-]

The disease characteristics is where this essay breaks down. Those don't really line up with any medical definition of disease. Seems like he redefines disease in order to deconstruct it a bit.

Comment author: beoShaffer 27 September 2012 03:17:26AM *  3 points [-]

Those don't really line up with any medical definition of disease.

It does however, fit with (my impressions of) the way people use the word in real life, which is far more relevant to the point of this article.