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Okay, but where's Moby Dick?
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
- Whitman
An African-American woman who was the unwitting source of cells from a cervical cancer tumor, which were cultured by George Otto Gey to create an immortal cell line for medical research. This is now known as the HeLa cell line.
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Some Gene Expression Data and Provenance for HeLA
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic References (FRBR)
Jim McCusker
Tetherless World Constellation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Krauthammer Lab,
Yale School of Medicine
Functional Requirements for Information Resources (FRIR)
A link between more and less abstract forms of the same thing
Rivers
Hurricanes
"The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned [from Crete] had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Demetrius Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their place, insomuch that this ship became a standing example among the philosophers, for the logical question of things that grow; one side holding that the ship remained the same, and the other contending that it was not the same."
Organisms
Businesses
Computers
Cars
Bands and Orchestras
Institutions
Sports Teams
We're talking about the same thing, but within broader and narrower contexts
As the proverb says: “This is my grandfather’s axe: my father fitted it with a new stock, and I have fitted it with a new head.”
Abstraction is a form of contextualization.
This happens when you model change in any monotonic system.
What does it mean when something is the same, even when it's changed?