I am sorry but impairment and disability are linguistically the same
statement. Just because a philosopher tells you something you believe it. I
reason everything out for myself.
I cannot accept your definitions they make no sence in my universe, you are
obviosly missing the whole point of what I am saying.
You are assuming that a particular set of funtions is normal. Sight for
instance is not something which is either there or not. There is still no
absolute of sight to measure the correctness of funtion against. We are all
"visually impaired" compared to some birds for instance. Hearing is not
something that is there or not, there is still no absolute of hearing to
measure the correctness of funtion against. Spinal injury is not something
which is either there or not. There is still no absolute of "walking
ability" to measure the correctness of funtion against.
Validity of a philospohical argument is not something that is there or not,
there is still no absolute of truth to measure the correctness of an
argument against.
Do you really think your brute facts mean anything at all.? They are not in
the least accurate descriptions of anything. There are no bio medical facts
which state that one person is "whole" and another impaired.
Take a range of funtioning held to be necessary for whatever you chose to
define as "normal life" and try and plot it mathematically, you can't
Larry
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> impairment is not at all a social variable but an objective
> physical fact.
> As the philosopher John Searle might put it, impairment is a brute fact;
> disability is a social fact (Searle, 1995). Impairment then, is
> best seen as
> the underlying basis of disability. It is conceived as functional loss
> following disease, injury, etc. At its simplest it states some obvious
> bio-medical facts: blind people canšt see, deaf people canšt hear, spinal
> injured people canšt walk, etc.
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