A theory of abstraction

F Giunchiglia, T Walsh - Artificial intelligence, 1992 - Elsevier
… on, we will write "abstraction" to mean this intuitive idea of abstraction, and to distinguish
this notion from the various formal and informal notions of abstraction used elsewhere in this …

[BOOK][B] Aristotle's theory of abstraction

A Bäck - 2014 - Springer
… it may signify those said from abstraction, sc., statements made as a result of abstraction, or
the objects that we are now able to talk about as a result of the abstraction. Yet the dilemma of…

A little theory of abstraction

R Kaschek - 2004 - dl.gi.de
… Below we introduce an approach to abstraction that avoids the danger of ill-defined
abstraction and covers several abstraction concepts that often are applied in information systems …

A general theory of abstraction operators

N Tennant - The Philosophical Quarterly, 2004 - academic.oup.com
… into our discourse by certain abstraction principles. The recent resurgence of interest in
neo-logicism about numbers has focused on that form of abstraction principle of which the best …

A theory of abstraction in reinforcement learning

D Abel - arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.00397, 2022 - arxiv.org
Abstraction is essential to all of these endeavors. Through abstraction, agents can form
concise models of their environment that support the many practices required of a rational, …

What is abstraction?

S Pollard - Noûs, 1987 - JSTOR
… our more liberal mode of abstraction unfit for service if we intend actually to use abstraction
as a theoretical tool. Each line of a proof within this sort of abstraction would have to be …

A grounded theory of abstraction in artificial intelligence

JD Zucker - … Transactions of the Royal Society of London …, 2003 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… By analysing the notion of abstraction from an information quantity … and abstraction in any
representation change. We contribute to extending the existing semantic theories of abstraction

A theory of abstraction.

D Kelley - 1984 - psycnet.apa.org
Defends A. Rand's (1979) abstractionist model of concept formation on philosophical and
psychological grounds, noting that the model is abstractionist in the sense that the process of …

The method of abstraction

L Floridi - The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of …, 2016 - api.taylorfrancis.com
… We have just introduced the correct level of abstraction or LoA, represented by the symbol
… The idea of a ‘level of abstraction’ plays an absolutely crucial role in how we handle any …

The culture of abstraction

A Toscano - Theory, Culture & Society, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Focusing especially on Science and the Modern World, this article explores Whitehead's
understanding of the social contexts and repercussions of mathematical and scientific …