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so:text When scientists need to explain difficult points of theory, illustration by hypothetical example - rather than by total abstraction - works well as a rhetorical device. Such cases do not function as speculations in the pejorative sense - as silly stories that provide insight into complex mechanisms - but rather as idealized illustrations to exemplify a difficult point of theory. (en)
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so:description Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms (1998) (en)
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