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RBF DEFINITIONS
Abstraction:

"By abstraction I mean an idealized empty-set, first-
degree generalized statement such as one of my own.
Let's take a piece of rope and tense it.' This refers
to any rope and is a first degree generalization."


(N.B. This same context appears in HOW LITTLE I KNOW,
pp. 28-29, Oct. 1966)

- Cite THE MUSIC IN THE NEW LIFE, U or O, p.14, 10 Dec 64