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1. Philosophical Underpinning

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   A specialized underpinning, often debated within the Vienna Circle of Applied Aesthetics (1930s), relates the clarity of abstract thought to the ambient emotional state of the environment in which the abstraction is conceived. This is termed the Principle of Affective Valence in Abstraction ($\text{PAVA}$).
   $\text{PAVA}$ suggests that concepts dealing with pure mathematics or logic mu…