What IF? Abstractions

Abstraction is crucial to having fun with ideas and learning. It's fundamental to mathematics.
Note: When speaking of the George Boolos (logician) quote (1:34), my explicit point is that the Law of Excluded Middle is fundamental to Logic, hence math. Since you can't even reason about something when you get rid of that fundamental law, then the ability to abstract (which is reasoning) also gets thrown out the window. Your ability to abstract is tied to your ability to fundamentally think logically and mathematically.