The phrase "account of functions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a report or explanation regarding the roles or operations of certain functions, often in a technical or organizational context.
Example: "The account of functions provided in the report clarified the responsibilities of each team member."
Alternatives: "description of functions" or "overview of functions".
This criterion is well suited for ruling out a single-process account of function, such as intensity or salience.
Rather, he plugs an etiological account of function into a Boorsian model, and his approach has been developed with little attempt to argue that medicine does in fact use an evolutionary, teleological account of function.
Supporters of an evolutionary account of function advertise the ease with which an account of malfunction follows from the theory as one of its virtues.
This stress on a distinctively evolutionary account of function is unattractive, since the biomedical sciences seem to employ a different conception of function.
Some recent theorists, notably Wakefield, have argued for an evolutionary account of function as that which has historically been spread by natural selection.
Up till now there is no accepted general account of function that covers both the intentionality-based notion of artifact function and the non-intentional notion of biological function not to speak of other areas where the concept plays a role, such as the social sciences.
Kingma contends that Boorse's account of function needs to capture not only the qualitative causal contribution made by a system to overall functioning, but also the quantitative features of its contribution: a healthy heart is not just a pump, but a pump that works at a given rate.
In contrast, it is widely believed that systemic accounts of function cannot deal with malfunction at all.
The paper argues that the aetiological theory of proper functions in organisms and artifacts is inadequate as an account of proper functions in such 'Paley organisms' and defends an alternative organisational approach.
Arguably, secretion is the most far reaching result of platelet activation, and as such can also account for functions of platelets beyond the immediate environment of the thrombus.
