Glossary of Terms

Abstraction: Abstraction is an insufficiency of details to describe completely all that is needed so that the EMMI that is necessary to enact a mechanism is available as needed.

Abstraction classification of integration: We refer to the class of integration as an abstraction classification of integration (or “cognitive integration”)—that is two things connected conceptually and cognitively considered as entities in object or process thinking.

Act, activity: An act is the change in an object that is distinguishable as one increment in a sequence of acts, which combine to make an activity.

Action: An action is the release or receipt of something due to the enactment of a mechanism.

Aggregation: An assemblage of discrete objects ...

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