[rpcope1]

> And it is always important to make a distinction between the abstractions proper to the formalism and the object of study. A common fallacy involves reifying those abstractions into objects of the theory, at least implicitly.

I agree 100% and feel like I have seen a lot of people in physics kind of fall into this trap. The model is not the thing itself.

[KolenCh]

Are you sure you are really talking about Physics? Are you talking about actual research in physics, or physicists applying their way of thinking in other things?