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  2. Abstraction - Wikipedia

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    Its development is likely to have been closely connected with the development of human language, which (whether spoken or written) appears to both involve and facilitate abstract thinking. Max Müller suggests interrelationship between metaphor and abstraction in the development of thought and language. [4]

  3. Abstraction (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    The term abstraction has a number of uses in the field of linguistics. It can denote a process (also called object abstraction) in the development of language, whereby terms become used for concepts further removed from the objects to which they were originally attached. It can also denote a process applied by linguists themselves, whereby ...

  4. List of abstractions (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    General programming abstractions are foundational concepts that underlie virtually all of the programming tasks that software developers engage in. By providing a layer of separation from the specifics of the underlying hardware and system details, these abstractions allow for the creation of complex logic in a more approachable and manageable ...

  5. Category:Abstraction - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Abstraction principle (computer programming) - Wikipedia

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    The abstraction principle is mentioned in several books. Some of these, together with the formulation if it is succinct, are listed below. Alfred John Cole, Ronald Morrison (1982) An introduction to programming with S-algol: "[Abstraction] when applied to language design is to define all the semantically meaningful syntactic categories in the language and allow an abstraction over them".

  7. Essay - Wikipedia

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    An argumentative essay is a critical piece of writing, aimed at presenting objective analysis of the subject matter, narrowed down to a single topic. The main idea of all the criticism is to provide an opinion either of positive or negative implication. As such, a critical essay requires research and analysis, strong internal logic and sharp ...

  8. Immediate constituent analysis - Wikipedia

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    A syntax tree example under immediate constituent analysis The third tree in this section illustrates the same sentence, “The man refused the present.”, but with an ICA correspondence. As theories have developed, it is argued that tree structures and their implications on categories and divisions have gradually moved away from models ...

  9. High- and low-level - Wikipedia

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    High-level and low-level, as technical terms, are used to classify, describe and point to specific goals of a systematic operation; and are applied in a wide range of contexts, such as, for instance, in domains as widely varied as computer science and business administration.