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<p>for</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>== Is the Search for &#039;The&#039; Right Abstraction Really a Category Error? ==<br /> <br /> The article states: &#039;&#039;&quot;the search for &#039;the&#039; right abstraction is a category error: there are only right abstractions for particular tasks.&quot;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> I want to complicate this.<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;The claim is half true and half false.&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> It is true that abstractions are always relative to a purpose. A thermodynamic abstraction of a gas (temperature, pressure, volume) is useless if your purpose is to predict chemical reaction rates. But the stronger claim — that there is no such thing as an abstraction that is right across many purposes — ignores a central fact about the world: some structural patterns are genuinely recurrent.<br /> <br /> Consider the abstraction of a &#039;&#039;&#039;graph&#039;&#039;&#039;: nodes and edges. Is this only right</div>

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