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| ... so through the process of *abstraction*, the robot simplifies its knowledge base, maintaining only information relevant to its task. | |
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| The opposite transmutation, the augmentation of a description, is called *concretion*. Can anyone give me an example? | |
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| Ooh, ooh, Dr. Kaufman, like this! | |
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| Yeah, right, Shanahan, you're just lucky I have a sense of humor. | |
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| Hey, we agree in principle, we just differ in the cementics. | |
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