On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 10:14 PM, Guillaume Rousse wrote:

Ainsi parlait Sauvenay Guillaume :

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Kevin Thiele wrote:

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Consider this in the real world. If I have a number of descriptions of species, and from them I want to create a genus description, then I would /collate/ the genus description from the species descriptions. /Compile/ and /aggregate/ would also work, but I think collate works better.

I would call it "abstract". Rather like one creates an abstract data type in programming, or one can also create objects that are abstract representations, or models, of real-world things.

Cheers

Ben

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