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B.5.TC:3 - Forces
| Force | Working tension |
|---|
| A shared question vs different concepts | Comparison needs a shared use, while translating every term into one vocabulary can erase the difference being investigated. |
| Agreement vs scope | A worked case makes an account usable; an equivalence claim across cases needs the corresponding argument. |
| Explanatory reach vs effort | A richer account can answer further questions while a smaller account supplies the present answer more cheaply. |
| Discrimination vs useful closure | A difference may justify further work, or leave the needed result unchanged. |
| Common operations vs subject knowledge | The comparison method travels across practices; its particular proofs, laws and causal premises come from the accounts being compared. |