Scope
Chapter “Optional endpoints and larger readings”, section “Mythic arcs are pictures”. This is assertion 2 of 2 in that section.
Expanded claim page · assertion 2 of 2
Organizes thought or workflow but is not evidence for a physical claim. moves a structure between mathematical, physical or ordinary languages.
Exact assertion
These pictures are a menu. Remove or substitute them and the scientific claim must remain unchanged. If a theorem or experiment depends on the mythic picture, the picture contains an unstated premise and has exceeded its authority.
The claim supplies a map or analogy. It becomes a derivation only after an explicit carrier-preserving map and invariant are given.
Chapter “Optional endpoints and larger readings”, section “Mythic arcs are pictures”. This is assertion 2 of 2 in that section.
Treat the passage as organization or analogy unless a cited carrier-preserving map is supplied.
moves a structure between mathematical, physical or ordinary languages.
Provide an explicit map that preserves the claimed structure, then identify an observable consequence that the analogy alone did not supply.
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