Abernathy, W. 99
absorption, integrating old and new knowledge 207–9, 228, 304; restoring richness to experience 206–7, 291; using new knowledge 209
abstraction 58–61; alternative to shared context 118–20; categorizing possible worlds 200–1, 433; conceiving and 86, 228; degree of 57, 304; diffusion of message and 93; establishes how knowledge can be applied 138; facilitated by codification 157; fragility of moves towards 125–6, 161; function of 57; how it differs from codification 175; intergroup transactions and 342–4; the power of uncodified 176–7; as reality versus descriptive convenience 175–6; requirements of valid 201–2; scale 60; scientific, hurdles and 201; versus anthropomorphism 177–8
abstraction scale, semiotics and 60
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