> So if abstractions can be problematic, then should we try to understand a topic without abstractions (to know cars as they really are)? No. When you dig benea

> So if abstractions can be problematic, then should we try to understand a topic without abstractions (to know cars as they really are)? No. When you dig beneath abstractions, you just find more abstractions. Demonstrating that language and colloquial "logic" are also abstractions. > It’s turtles all the way down. Memes and catch phrases are abstractions. > These layers of abstractions go down until we hit our most basic axioms about logic and reality. Reality too is an abstraction. Luckily all humans run Faith, and it runs invisibly, otherwise I suspect we'd have not made it this far. Though, it now seems like that which saved us may now take us down (climate change, nuclear weapons, other/unknown). > Trust, but verify. Haha...of course, just use logic and critical thinking!