Difference between revisions of "Abstract Thinking"
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[[Abstract Thinking]] is the process of creating general rules or concepts that can encapsulate many specific use cases. | [[Abstract Thinking]] is the process of creating general rules or concepts that can encapsulate many specific use cases. | ||
==Context== | ==Context== | ||
| − | It is often said that there is no problem of computer science that cannot be solved with another level of indirection (or layer of abstraction). | + | * It is often said that there is no problem of computer science that cannot be solved with another level of indirection (or layer of abstraction). |
| + | * One abstraction of this idea is that it is the filtering of information about one concept that selects only those details are shared with others. | ||
| + | * For example a [[Taxonomy]] is a categorization of elements of a set into those that share the same set of attributes. | ||
==Reference== | ==Reference== | ||
[[Category: Philosophy]] | [[Category: Philosophy]] | ||
Revision as of 11:19, 27 January 2021
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Abstract Thinking is the process of creating general rules or concepts that can encapsulate many specific use cases.
Context
- It is often said that there is no problem of computer science that cannot be solved with another level of indirection (or layer of abstraction).
- One abstraction of this idea is that it is the filtering of information about one concept that selects only those details are shared with others.
- For example a Taxonomy is a categorization of elements of a set into those that share the same set of attributes.
