The socially defined behavior of electronic components.
What it means to be a 100 Ω resistor is inherently nebulous, and negotiated and renegotiated between manufacturers and customers. By @robamacl http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ram/art/essay/components/ …
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Sure, but a specific resistor that you may have in a circuit behaves the way it behaves & remains what it is, regardless of the consensus definition changing around it, right? So this is a point about language, not about the thing.
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Ah, I see, maybe! There is a way of misunderstanding “social construction” as “we can make things be however we like by agreeing they are that way.” Nobody actually believes that.
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Having worked with resistors, I know the whole "test a bunch and pick the right one". In engineering there's the problem of you order two lots of parts that are supposed to match together but some need to be matched with specific parts in the other lot b/c tolerance not perfect
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