If hard vs soft was purely about level of analysis/abstraction then replacing it with top vs bottom (top-down, bottom-up analyses etc) would
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suffice... but it doesn't because hard vs soft is weaponised to delineate real (physics etc) vs not (psych etc) science.
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And this real vs not distinction is damaging, in the same way hard vs soft is, for the reasons already mentioned.

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So yes, level of analysis thinking is very useful (e.g., Marr etc) https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/IB_Psychology/Levels_of_Analysis …
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and also used in many fields, in compsci it's usually referred to as level of abstraction. http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/46045/level-of-abstraction …
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But seriously? Nobody actually think 1% this deeply about these concepts and definitely not typical and/or lay people who use soft vs hard.
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