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How to ThinkIn the Age of AI
Principlev1PR-705

Create named abstractions for structurally identical schemas

Create named abstractions for structurally identical schemas across domains, then link domain-specific instances to the abstraction rather than deleting them.

Why This Is a Principle

Derives from Schemas as Knowledge Organization Structures (schemas organize knowledge), Abstraction Necessarily Discards Information (abstraction retains selected features), and Abstraction Requires Grounding (abstract representations need grounding). This is prescriptive about the specific architecture for handling redundancy. It's actionable and preserves both abstraction and application.