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title: Abstraction Allows for Ambiguity
date: 2023-04-22T23:39:53.000Z
updated: 2026-01-08T14:50:44.575Z
url: https://baku89.com/Abstraction_Allows_for_Ambiguity
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# Abstraction Allows for Ambiguity

一般には、抽象化を経るごとに、普通の人にはとっつきづらい小難しいものになっていくという先入観\
People often assume that with each level of abstraction, things become more difficult and inaccessible—something only specialists can grasp.

しかし「くっつける」という動詞が、お団子から板金、法人にまで使えるように、ある種の抽象化によって、対象のジャンルを跨いで存在する曖昧な概念を、より少数の抽象コンセプトによって柔軟に表現することができるようになる\
But consider how the verb “append” can describe anything from skewering rice cakes to concatenating arrays to forming corporate entities. Through a certain kind of abstraction, we can express vague, cross-domain concepts more flexibly using fewer, more general ideas. Kinda similar idea to [Orthogonality](/Orthogonality)

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