RHETOR 115 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Ideal Type, Indiscernibles, Hans Selye
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Physicians need to understand the concepts of the normal and pathological. Human life can have (1) biological meaning (2) social meaning (3) existential meaning > all retained in an assessments of the modifications that disease inflicts on the human. Need to look for the causes for this ambiguity. Problem of the nature of universals: no one can understand how a law whose reality is guaranteed by its invariance could be at once verified by diverse examples and powerless to reduce their variety or their infidelity. Bernard refutes bichat"s vitalism: if truth is in the type, reality is always outside this type and constantly differs from it. Ex. there is no medicine of the human species. Order of properties: organization of forces and a hierarchy of functions whose stability is necessarily precarious, for it is the solution to the problem of equilibrium. Irregularity/ anomaly are not accidents affecting an individual but conceived as an individual"s very existence.
