Abstracting away details and concretizing them frame scientific research as one cycle

Evidence

Many forms of scientific and engineering methodologies can be formulated as different combinations of the three approaches. Figure 1.1 characterizes these as levels of the abstraction process as well as realizing abstractions back towards practice. Abstraction means getting rid of details that are not essential for modelling or understanding a specific object or principle, and concretization (realization) is the opposite process of adding details in order to approach reality or practical construction of a system. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 103

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines abstraction and concretization as the two poles of a single bidirectional methodology loop.