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between the abstractions of the philosophy of chemistry and the concrete vernacular
of chemical practice. Effective metaphors modify the behavior of chemists toward a
given substance or reaction system by distributing attention among the several
dispositional properties that pertain to a given experimental situation, depending
on the instrumentation and observational conditions used. The late-twentieth cen-
tury wave of science studies tend toward Pickering
s idea that something like a
“mangle of practice,” the mutual resistance and accommodation of theory, instru-
mentation and practice, applies to all contemporary sciences. Over three and a half
centuries ago, chemistry emerged by acknowledging and wrestling with this
dynamic interdependence to create a seemingly endless list of materials and
processes. It should be no surprise then, given the role of metaphor in scientific
creativity, that chemistry has been literally the most creative of the sciences.
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