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Indeed, he suggests that a full explication of the notion requires a third hidden term, a medium of implementation: I is an Implementation of A in medium M.
In all the examples cited there is a medium of implementation in which the actual thing that is the implementation is carved out.
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For him, software is a concrete abstraction that has a medium of description (the text, the abstraction) and a medium of execution (e.g., a concrete implementation in semiconductors).
Finally, consider the case where the medium of implementation is a physical device, e.g., an abstract stack is implemented as a physical one.
Here I is the semantic component, A is the abstraction and M the medium of implementation.
Of course, a complete description will spell out more, but presumably not what the actual machine is made of; one assumes that this would be part of the structural description of the underlying computer, the medium of implementation.
Photography is a medium of inescapable truthfulness.
"Broadcasting was a medium of mayhem.
Fiction is a medium of metaphor.
Coins are a medium of exchange.
Television was a medium of self-improvement.
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