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I suppose if you really wanted to you could view condensing useful abstractions out of a highly detailed system as a kind of language game, but I'm not convince
by tbrownaw 2y ago
I suppose if you really wanted to you could view condensing useful abstractions out of a highly detailed system as a kind of language game, but I'm not convinced that that's useful in the context of investigating particular abstractions rather than investigating the nature of the process of making abstractions.
- throwup238 2y agoI think the very concept of an abstraction is a language game, one that speaks to the old Platonic ideals of Greek philosophy - with all the good and bad that implies. This specific language game takes on a very concrete meaning to programmers that can be quantitatively analyzed by a compiler but epistemologically it’s just another abstract concept (I hate philosophical inception).