Dear Jinan,
All acts of consciousness are acts of abstraction in as much as they are
highly selective samplings of cognitive information (the synaptic refresh
rate of sight is around 70 cycles a second).
What is more commonly, in academic terms, seen as abstraction, is the
significant reduction of awareness to a set of conceptual categories. That
is, academics set out to determine specific features of the world in their
pursuit of theoretical understandings.
Developmental models of children often illustrate stages of abstraction in
terms of drawings that children make. That is, they align awareness of
distinctive features with conceptual and psychological development. When
does mummy become the physically relative size to daddy etc.
Cheers
keith
>I hope some of you can help me to understand ABSTRACTION deeply. What
>exactly is it. How does it happen or do we have to consciously
>abstract etc. Jinan
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