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by namaria 427 days ago
Yes. There are different concepts called 'entropy', sometimes merely because their mathematical formulation looks very similar.

It means different things in different contexts and an abstract discussion of the term is essentially meaningless.

Even discussions within the context of the second law of thermodynamics are often misleading because people ignore much of the context in which the statistical framing of the law was formulated. Formal systems and all that... These are not general descriptions of how nature works, but formal systems definitions that allow for some calculations.

I find the study of symmetries by Noether much more illuminating in general than trying to generalize conservation laws as observed within certain formal models.