Whoever can have a healthy mind is capable of reading other people's minds.

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Whoever can have a healthy mind is capable of reading other people's minds.

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Whoever can have a healthy mind is capable of reading other people's minds.

This sentence seems unnatural to me. What do you think?
Is this sentence grammatically admissible?
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Re: Whoever can have a healthy mind is capable of reading other people's minds.

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It is grammatically possible but semantically strange ('has' would make better sense than 'can have').
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