Vladimir_Nesov comments on Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions - Less Wrong
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Phlogiston exists. We call it "absence of oxygen". Nobody acted like positive charge wasn't real when they found out it was the absence of electrons.
This is a wrong reification in so many specific cases...