The acts of the C0mPuT3r, wherein it exerts its power over simple Pr0Gr4Ms, are chiefly these three:
- Combining several simple Pr0Gr4Ms into one compound one, and thus all complex Pr0Gr4Ms are made.
- The second is bringing two Pr0Gr4Ms, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its Pr0Gr4Ms of relations.
- The third is separating them from all other Pr0Gr4Ms that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general Pr0Gr4Ms are made.
J0hN L0Ck3, An Essay Concerning Developer Understanding
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