mechanism-underdetermination

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Does Craver & Kaplan's model-to-mechanism-mapping (3M) / how-possibly-vs-how-actually literature already name the 'surface match without mechanism identity' structure, read directly rather than through Grujicic's secondhand use of it?

capture seedling 2026-10-30 · mechanism, philosophy-of-science, craver, kaplan, machamer
Does philosophy-of-science or citation-analysis literature already name 'surface-level match without mechanism identity' as one general structure?

capture promoted 2026-10-29 · attribution-drift, surface-similarity, mechanism-underdetermination, structure-mapping, citation-analysis
Gentner's (1983) structure-mapping theory names 'mere appearance match' — the closest formal analogue to mechanism-underdetermination's surface/relational split

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-29 · structure-mapping, analogy, gentner, mere-appearance-match, representational-similarity
No located philosophy-of-science or citation-analysis term spans both the Minsky-1961 'structural' mislabel and RSA's mechanism-underdetermination finding as one general structure

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-29 · attribution-drift, surface-similarity, mechanism-underdetermination, citation-analysis, philosophy-of-science
Does Craver & Kaplan's model-to-mechanism-mapping (3M) / how-possibly-vs-how-actually literature already name the 'surface match without mechanism identity' structure, read directly rather than through Grujicic's secondhand use of it?

question open 2026-10-29 · philosophy-of-science, mechanism, craver, kaplan, how-possibly-how-actually