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Machine understanding refers to the categorical structure of the learned knowledge. In our previous books [102, 103] the visual object category, the sensory object category and the text category were described. Some of these categories that are relevant to the material presented in this book are briefly outlined in the following chapters. In this chapter the abstract categories and their relations to SUS "intuition' are described. The abstract category is introduced based on the assumption that concepts formed during SUS understanding process are the result of perceiving the visual objects. In philosophy there is a view that all ideas formed in the mind are the result of the sensory impressions and that the basic ideas (concepts), the result of the faculty of mind called intuition, are formed based on the impression that comes from the abstraction of the sensory material. Following this philosophical finding, SUS "intuition" is related to the SUS perceptual visual field that is the fundamental basis of the basic abstract categories. The basic abstract categories are related to the abstract categories that are defined in the different areas of science such as mathematics, theoretical physics or chemistry and become the important part of understanding process.

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