FT24014: Simplification and delimiting

     Abstracting takes the form of reducing a lot of information and experience into a condensed form. The way we can abstract is by general knowledge where we have actually gleaned the point behind what we ruminate on or mere simplification where we reduce complexity to reduce what we have to think about often to ignore something.

    Simplification can take the form of a method we can follow even if we don't understand the steps involved. An algorithmic way to add 2 and 2 to make 4 will work whether you understand the numbers represents units of 1 and like units can be combined. 

    Math explains this fact but rarely do people abstract their daily life into numbers so the meet of these processes deal with qualitative reasoning. Typically the simplification does not have a necessity because the simplification conforms with some underlying reality, but rather we simplify to save our attention for what we value as important. 

    Simplification often shapes our view of reality even though it is somewhat an arbitrary version. Our values are often based on what we like and dislike rather than what is true or false. When our simplifications are challenged and we are forced to consider what is outside them they confront us as an irrationality. Meaning the world we've set universal limitations to is delimited. The delimiting is in two ways that it confronting our personal limitations and de-limiting them in the non-conventional way of the the word, but the world is actually delimiting itself in the conventional way the word is used. 

    There is tension as reality-as-it-is is confronting our personal reality. The stoics advised to be more aware of reality-as-it-is rather than our personal reality because it upsets us greatly to have these conflict. The solution is to have your personal reality mirror what really is even if we don't it. 

    This process has a pragmatic tinge to it and may also be a simplification itself. Meaning we should adhere to reality-as-it-is because we prefer the consequences of this rather than asserting a conflicting reality. I won't explain it further here but this is not the case if the result is abstracting that leads to actual knowledge rather than a preference.