structure-mapping

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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