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procrustean bed
An arbitrary standard, especially one that is forced upon people for the sake of conformity and involves the sacrifice of what is useful.
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Iron-bound, impersonal ethics, the procrustean bed of rules, he soon saw at their true value as the deification of averages.
The reductionist tendencies and impulses of Jaynes's approach tend to turn history into a Procrustean Bed; the body is mangled to fit the theory.
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