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An example of an analogy used in writing about science:
"Some philosophers think that a science is just an artificial language…But that is taking cans for canned food. Science constructs sign systems and works with them but only in so far as they can materialise our ideas concerning nonlinguistic objects, such as chemical binding. Furthermore, science is communicable but it does not serve the purpose of communication….Science, in short, has a language but is not a language…."
Mario Bunge
Bunge, M. (2017/1998). Philosophy of Science. Volume 1: From problem to theory (Revised ed.). Routledge.
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