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The document discusses different perspectives on abstraction across various disciplines including philosophy, mathematics, and artificial intelligence. In philosophy, abstraction has been related to generalization and capturing the essence of things. Plato proposed distinguishing between abstract ideas and concrete objects. Aristotle defined three types of abstraction. Later philosophers like Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant further explored the abstract-concrete distinction.

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George A. Loayza

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