From: John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com>
 To: everything-list@googlegroups.com 
 Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 9:56 AM
 Subject: Re: Isn't this group supposed to be about trying to figure out how 
the universe works and not so much about religion and insults?
   
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:20 AM, Kim Jones <kimjo...@ozemail.com.au> wrote:


> stop using that ridiculous and meaningless art term "abstract". [...] Nothing 
> is "abstract". 

So you're saying that the word "abstract" should be removed from the English 
language because it will never be needed?! 


Except when an abstraction needs to be expressed and talked about abstractly, 
without abstractions and being able to speak of abstract entities modern 
information science and templatizable data structures would not exist. -Chris

 John K Clark

 
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