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Going from desiderata to phenomena serves a dual purpose. First, it increases the phenomenological appeal of our theory. We show in the course of this chapter that the ICE-theory can account for many different aspects of malfunctioning. We do not give a full description of malfunctioning. Yet our investigations make clear how intricate such a description must be, and which ingredients — social, epistemic, practical and action-theoretical — constitute it. Thus, second, we show that much of the phenomenological work is, in fact, done by the theory of using and designing and not by the theory of functions.
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Houkes, W., Vermaas, P.E. (2010). Malfunctioning. In: Technical Functions. Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3900-2_5
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