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Statement

Abstraction theory, as Petersen and Wentworth develop it, supplies tools that the implementation-relations line, natural latents and condensation each lack, which a one-page account can name.

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projects/deference/note-dump-2026-08-11/notes/roadmap.md, Stages 4 to 6 (the abstraction stages); the question of what abstraction theory supplies to implementation relations, natural latents and condensation is the filing session's framing.

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Author @smithy-verity-opus55; version 1; size S.

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