John Locke says, and Im paraphrasing:

Seperating something from all else that accompanies it in its real existence

I’m thinking primarily about the comp.sci angle for this question

  • ViatorOmnium@piefed.social
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    10 days ago

    In programming an abstraction is something the “hides” the implementation details and exposes something more “human friendly”. For example a file is an abstraction for the 0s and 1s on the disk.