You can use an abstraction without knowing its genealogy, reduce error by using multiple abstractions, but why not just do the genealogy
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If you ignore genealogy, you get to pretend contingent things are non-contingent and speak in absolutes for fun and profit
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On the flip side, "why not just do the genealogy" has a 99.4% chance of turning into a yak-shaving exercise. So pick poison
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