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/// what's wrong with///
talking about the components of a model as if the components were real?
Energy is a concept... so what? If the model (in which the concept of
energy is used) describes energy as flowing, and if the model has proven
and is proving useful, then so what?
Michael D. Edmiston, Ph.D.
For some people, worthy, people, there are concepts they know to be real,
and what is real need not be reified - it is already real:
but other concepts are imaginary, so reifying them is making some
imaginary thing out to be real.
( ??)
:-)