Four Causes of Aristotle, Levels of Abstraction of Korzybski, and Levels of Analysis by Marr (elaborated later by Floridi), and Hayakawa’s Ladder of Abstraction are all relevant. It’s also been in use in the philosophy of medicine and philosophy (and methodology) of anthropology for a long time but I don’t know who popularized it in those fields or recall what names it tends to go by.
Four Causes of Aristotle, Levels of Abstraction of Korzybski, and Levels of Analysis by Marr (elaborated later by Floridi), and Hayakawa’s Ladder of Abstraction are all relevant. It’s also been in use in the philosophy of medicine and philosophy (and methodology) of anthropology for a long time but I don’t know who popularized it in those fields or recall what names it tends to go by.