Domain-Specific Abstractions¶
This section is the complete catalog of all 11,505 domain-specific abstractions in the encyclopedia.
Use the Browse options below to move through the catalog by hierarchy, origin domain, or structural family. The Display options provide interactive views of the mixed abstraction graph.
Browse¶
- Alphabetically — the complete A–Z list, with a concise description of every abstraction.
- By hierarchy — prime and domain-specific abstractions arranged by the typed parent–child relationships of the catalog's mixed directed-acyclic hierarchy. Every node carries a P/D type badge, sits under its primary parent, and retains secondary parents and mutual partners as crosslinks.
- By domain group — primes and domain-specific abstractions grouped by the eight broad families the canonical domains roll up into (Formal Sciences, Natural Sciences, Humanities, …). The coarsest view, and the one place both layers are counted side by side.
- By domain — abstractions grouped by their origin domain, the field of study each pattern is native to (Economics & Finance, Psychology & Cognitive Science, Computer Science, …).
- By family — abstractions grouped by their neighborhood in structural-signature space (k-means clusters over structural-signature embeddings), each with a short description. The empirical 'which abstractions sit near each other' view.
Display¶
- Atlas — an interactive, zoomable map of prime and domain-specific abstractions. Related concepts form territories and continents; moving closer reveals individual abstractions and their typed relationships.
- Shape of the Abstraction Space — the corpus from above: every canonical origin domain as one measured similarity map — bubble area = entities, distance = structural-signature similarity, regions = the eight canonical domain groups — with the full domain-distance matrix and the raw abstraction cloud beneath it.
- Cross-Domain Echoes — paired visual explanations of a shared pattern in two domains, showing which roles correspond and where the comparison stops.
- Tensions in Practice — interactive illustrations of competing aims, showing what different arrangements protect, cost, and leave unresolved.
- Sunburst — the same mixed single-parent hierarchy rendered as an interactive, zoomable sunburst diagram. Foundational abstractions ring the centre; node tooltips and focus links identify Prime or Domain-specific.
- Force graph — the full mixed directed-acyclic hierarchy as an interactive force-directed network. Where the Sunburst and By-hierarchy views keep one parent per abstraction, this view shows every logical typed relation, including domain → prime and domain → domain topology.