On the Cognitive Process of Abstraction

Concepts are the basic elements of propositions. Concepts can be best understood as constituted by its subset of objects (Extent) and subset of attributes (Intent). Psychological capacities of human mind for example, learning, thinking, memorizing can be performed by concepts and their association. In this paper, we will explain how human will be able to generalize concrete concepts of Formal Concept Analysis into abstract concepts. In particular, we model the functionalities of concept algebra by making use of Formal Concept Analysis; we illustrate the proposed model with experiments on sample context. This model simulates the thinking process of human mind.