Consider "baldness," a favored concept among philosophers of vagueness, though hardly one that those of us with thinning hair like to dwell upon.
Treatment to remove baldness in the first context is therapy, because it removes an obstacle to normal living.
The androgen-responsive genes that are involved in malepattern baldness are yet to be identified.
In both cases, it is vitally important t h a t the presence or absence of baldness is correctly diagnosed.
These are, respectively, young males who have a significant degree of baldness and older males who have no indication of hair loss.
Any condition with a treatment, baldness for example, is now portrayed as a disease with a medicine that can cure it.
A person might similarly think that all legal questions, normative questions about what should be done, have a correct answer even if some statements about baldness do not.
Then there are those advertisements which give positive promises of a cure for baldness.
