
The famous novelist, Ayn Rand, responds to the question: "What does art do?" by answering: A concept is a mental integration of two or more units which are isolated according to a specific characteristic and united by a specific definition.... The act of isolation involved is a process of abstraction: i.e., a selective mental focus that takes out or separates a certain aspect of reality from all others.... The uniting involved is not a mere sum, but an integration, i.e., a blending of the units into a single, new mental entity which is used thereafter as a single unit of thought.
Isolation and integration are the core processes involved in both concept formation and artistic creation.

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