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/ …
This can lead you mis-take nebulosity as being just a matter of ambiguity of language or other representations; whereas it’s at least as much a feature of clouds and resistors and jam.
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I'm not mistaking social construction to mean "whatever the consensus believes it is what it is". I'm trying to understand what you were saying - a specific resistor changes its behavior or things that fall into the category of resistors have different behaviors over time?
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It’s that category membership is always inherently a matter of “counts as” not objective physical fact.
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