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| 1 | Philosophy | 16,859 | ![]() |
| 2 | Logic | 5,521 | ![]() |
| 3 | Meta | 2,718 | ![]() |
| 4 | Abstraction | 1,966 | ![]() |
| 5 | Mutually exclusive events | 1,922 | ![]() |
| 6 | Conceptual framework | 1,380 | ![]() |
| 7 | Daydream | 1,126 | ![]() |
| 8 | Complexity | 931 | ![]() |
| 9 | Simplicity | 532 | ![]() |
| 10 | First principle | 424 | ![]() |
| 11 | Abstract object | 340 | ![]() |
| 12 | Hyperfocus | 299 | ![]() |
| 13 | Absent-minded professor | 261 | ![]() |
| 14 | Absent-mindedness | 240 | ![]() |
| 15 | Property (philosophy) | 238 | ![]() |
| 16 | Wason selection task | 201 | ![]() |
| 17 | Type–token distinction | 182 | ![]() |
| 18 | Abstraction (mathematics) | 114 | ![]() |
| 19 | Logical form | 106 | ![]() |
| 20 | Symbol (formal) | 90 | ![]() |
| 21 | Frictionless plane | 87 | ![]() |
| 22 | Abstractionism | 50 | ![]() |
| 23 | Leaky abstraction | 46 | ![]() |
| 24 | Abstract structure | 43 | ![]() |
| 25 | Special case | 39 | ![]() |
| 26 | Semantic gap | 33 | ![]() |
| 27 | Hypostatic abstraction | 29 | ![]() |
| 28 | Objective precision | 16 | ![]() |
| 29 | THOG problem | 12 | ![]() |
| 30 | Continuous predicate | 10 | ![]() |
| 31 | Metamechanics | 9 | ![]() |
| 32 | Abstraction (sociology) | 7 | ![]() |
| 33 | Distinction (philosophy) | 6 | ![]() |
| 34 | Book:Abstraction | 6 | ![]() |
| 35 | Abstract process | less than 5 views |
Abstraction is the thought process in which ideas are distanced from objects. Abstraction uses a strategy of simplification of detail, wherein formerly concrete details are left ambiguous, vague, or undefined; thus speaking of things in the abstract demands that the listener have an intuitive or common experience with the speaker, if the speaker expects to be understood.
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