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WP:BEFORE search is complicated. Most uses of the phrase are in reference to philosophy of Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell. Admittedly, I am having a hard time understanding their meaning of this term. See, eg.

• Fine, Kit (2002). The Limits of Abstraction. Oxford University Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-19-924618-2.
• Angelelli, Ignacio (2004). "Adventures of abstraction". In Coniglione, Francesco; Poli, Roberto; Rollinger, Robin D. (eds.). Idealization XI: Historical Studies on Abstraction and Idealization. BRILL. pp. 9–35. doi:10.1163/9789004333215_003. ISBN 978-90-04-33321-5.
• Beaney, Michael (2010-12-22). "Analysis and abstraction principles in Russell and Frege". The Analytic Turn: Analysis in Early Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203939703. ISBN 978-1-134-17805-6.

Mauri Leppänen seems to have independently developed her own meaning for the phrase.

• Viola, Ivan; Chen, Min; Isenberg, Tobias (2020-07-30). "Visual Abstraction" (PDF). In Chen, Min; Hauser, Helwig; Rheingans, Penny; Scheuermann, Gerik (eds.). Foundations of Data Visualization. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. p. 15–37. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-34444-3_2. hdl:10754/660648. ISBN 978-3-030-34443-6.
• Leppänen, Mauri (2007). "Towards an Abstraction Ontology". In Duží, Marie; Jaakkola, Hannu; Kiyoki, Yasushi; Kangassalo, Hannu (eds.). Information modelling and knowledge bases XVIII (PDF). Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications. Vol. 154. Amsterdam: IOS Press. p. 166-185. ISBN 978-1-58603-710-9. ISSN 0922-6389. OCLC 124083393.

While this is dense material that I have not fully grasped, I am sufficiently persuaded that their meaning is not closely related to the current content of this article, and so is irrelevant to this discussion. Daask (talk) 17:17, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Philosophy-related deletion discussions. Daask (talk) 17:17, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
• Delete. No sourcing and the article sucks as well anyway. Nothing of value will be lost. Macktheknifeau (talk) 20:18, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Herald (Benison) (talk) 01:56, 4 April 2024 (UTC)