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Computer scientists use abstraction to understand and solve problems and communicate their solutions with the computer in some particular... Abstraction used in philosophy... An abstraction can thus encapsulate each of these levels of detail with no loss of generality... Different levels of abstraction might be denoted by a progression of arrows joining boxes or ellipses in multiple rows... Abstraction used in philosophy... Abstraction used in philosophy... The notion of abstraction is important to understanding some philosophical controversies surrounding... An abstraction can be seen as a process of mapping multiple different pieces of... In this sense the process of abstraction entails the identification of similarities between objects and the process of associating these objects with... In the 20th century the trend toward abstraction coincided with advances in science... abstraction was manifest in more purely formal terms... Abstraction operates in one of these opposing functions when it excludes the simultaneous influence of the... Abstraction requires selective use of this structural split of abilities in the psyche...

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