Redefining mental health is not interpretive gloss or an attempt to rescue our vocabulary by reifying its assumptions in new terms. It is a statement of minimal commitments about the least one must assume in order to speak coherently about minds, meaning, and breakdown without covertly reintroducing metaphysics whenever explanation runs thin. The following axioms are intentionally sparse because surplus premises do not remain surplus; they calcify into foundations, and foundations tend to be defended long after their use has expired. Each axiom is therefore not a preference but a constraint on what may legitimately be posited in subsequent analysis, and they are arranged so that later claims are disciplined by earlier ones rather than floating free as optional rhetoric.
Benjamin James (Thu,) studied this question.