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Could be. My understanding of the term is the same as yours, but reading it the wrong way would fit the facts, and I have to admit in general I can't be too cri
by jerf 3y ago
Could be. My understanding of the term is the same as yours, but reading it the wrong way would fit the facts, and I have to admit in general I can't be too critical of such a reading. The physics sense of "catastrophe" in use here is pretty obscure; I'm not sure I can think of another instance of it I've come across in English.
- Nevermark 3y ago“Catastrophe” or “crisis” have a long history of use for sudden change phenomena, especially associated with some major failure or blow up of a previous pattern of system behavior. “Critical” may be a more familiar word used in similar contexts, honed in on a specific threshold of a dramatic behavior change. None of these words in this usage style refer to the scientific social process, but to the phenomena.