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Written 6/1/25

Published 6/1/25

A brief detour from academic exploration to clarify the intent and ongoing developments in “Thing Theory”, the domain of inquiry regarding semantic hyper-reduction. Thing Theory intends to model abstractions at the level of things, in that all abstractions in some sense are things one may refer to, and this abstract class demonstrates unique principles and behaviors that may reliably apply to all things at this high level of abstraction.