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realce | 1 year ago

Abstraction is the opposite of precision.

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salutis|1 year ago

Abstraction is the opposite of specialization, not precision. Multiplication, for example, is an abstraction that can be defined in terms of repeated addition of the same term, which is less general, and so more special, than addition of two arbitrary terms, but it not less precise.