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1. Generalisation; ignoring or hiding details to capture some kind of commonality between different instances. Examples are

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are ignored),

(details are ignored to analyse specific properties).

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2. Parameterisation, making something a function of something else. Examples are lambda abstractions (making a term into a function of some variable), higher-order functions (parameters are functions), bracket abstraction (making a term into a function of a variable).

Opposite of

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Last updated: 1998-06-04

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