Level Confusion: To logically confuse or conflate two different metaphorical levels of description, thus coining new phrases at the cost of new confusion. For example, selfish genes, psychic energy, conscious organisms, or propositions like water equals two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen, and one part 'wetness' tie together high and low level concepts into strange loops that make for untestable and unpractical thinking, but at least make metaphorical pictures that seem to be correct, even though they are as tangible as the cheshire cat.
