One surprising thing I've learned from having kids is how deep completism runs in humans. (All toy companies know this.)
Completism leads to abstraction. The focus inevitably shifts from the members of a collection to the criteria for membership.
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As collections become large, their members grow too numerous to remain individually intelligible; membership itself is what matters.
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The adjudication of membership, too, becomes an urgent project. Subtle edge cases make precise membership criteria highly salient.
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