5/21/2023 0 Comments The likeness book![]() Human agency is involved in the categorization of patterns of behaviour as illnesses such as ADHD, alcoholism, or schizophrenia. The likeness argument takes it for granted that the radical questions are about what we may observe or discover. ![]() ![]() The nature of the failure is, however, instructive. They are not and so the likeness argument must fail. In particular, the idea that the features that should decide the issue (as the first assumption states), are describable independently of views about the issue (as the second assumption states), is false. I have argued that the likeness argument cannot close these disputes, because two of the assumptions it relies upon to do so do not stand up to scrutiny. Disputes continue on all sides about which likenesses and differences are to count, and what they are to count for. As a matter of fact, no one has yet produced a version of it which achieves what it aims and claims to be able to achieve, namely to answer the question whether or not conditions such as schizophrenia really are illnesses or not. The likeness argument dominates the dispute over the reality of mental illness. ![]()
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