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Twice the Cause Does not Give Twice the Effect

Rests on bnd-emergence-property-of-the-whole. Prerequisite for bnd-threshold-regime-shift and for arc- (limits to growth needs a bending response), and it explains to lev- why the size of a parameter change does not predict its effect. Fence: no chaos theory, no attractors, no differential equations; the claim is about the shape of a response, not its mathematics.

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Why the Superposition Principle Fails for Nonlinear Systems

Nonlinear systems are formally defined as those that violate the superposition principle, which comprises two sub-principles: additivity (the combined system equals the simple sum of its components' …