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Full Idea
Fine considers abstraction principles as instances of reconceptualization (rather than implicit definition, or using the Context Principle). This centres not on reference, but on new senses emerging from analysis of a given sense.
Gist of Idea
Fine considers abstraction as reconceptualization, to produce new senses by analysing given senses
Source
report of Kit Fine (The Limits of Abstraction [2002], 035) by R Cook / P Ebert - Notice of Fine's 'Limits of Abstraction' 2
Book Ref
-: 'British Soc for the Philosophy of Science' [-], p.793
A Reaction
Fine develops an argument against this view, because (roughly) the procedure does not end in a unique result. Intuitively, the idea that abstraction is 'reconceptualization' sounds quite promising to me.