> And it is always important to make a distinction between the abstractions proper to the formalism and the object of study. A common fallacy involves reifying those abstractions into objects of the theory, at least implicitly.
I agree 100% and feel like I have seen a lot of people in physics kind of fall into this trap. The model is not the thing itself.
Are you sure you are really talking about Physics? Are you talking about actual research in physics, or physicists applying their way of thinking in other things?
I agree 100% and feel like I have seen a lot of people in physics kind of fall into this trap. The model is not the thing itself.