hierarchies of abstrac-tion
cocosci.princeton.edu/papers/krafftCogsci.pdf
The introduction of suitable abstractions is our only mental aid to organise and master complexity
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Abstraction in Math
Modern systems theory, bound up with computers and equations, hides the fact that it traffics in truths known at some level by everyone. It is often possible, therefore, to make a direct translation from systems jargon to traditional wisdom.