Ontology
Systems, Boundaries, and Re-Identifiability
In production (complete)A structural account of what a system is, how boundaries arise, and how identity can persist without essentialist substances.
Function in corpus
Identity and boundary foundation for the corpus. It underwrites lineage, restoration, dissolution, governance, and responsibility papers wherever the question is what persists through change.
Details
The paper rejects intrinsic-boundary and substance-based accounts of identity while preserving the reality of systems and the legitimacy of re-identification in practice. It develops systemhood in terms of constraint coherence and persistence conditions, showing how a system can change while still remaining the same system under disciplined criteria. ā¢ Connected papers: Informational Ontology; Invariant Drift and Sedimentation; Restoration Geometry