Topics — What a work is about. Nucleation holds whatever reading the owner files here, whether or not an Anthology of the SOTA topic could also hold it; instruction for ML practice belongs to the anthology (ADR-048). The words are seeded from the clusters the reading-time triage of 2026-09-25 found, and grow by decision.
Mereology — parts and wholes — composition, individuation of systems and collectives (group: philosophy).
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
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| CLAIM-405 v2 | An individuation is well defined only once its criterion is fixed (the target it serves, the transformations its unity must survive, the scale), and that dependence does not make it arbitrary: once the criterion is fixed a verdict can be false, and differently fixed criteria can pick out units of one system whose boundaries cross rather than nest, none of them less real for it | The individuation counterpart of the owner’s normative thesis CLAIM-363 (“once they are fixed, the judgment can be false”), as A8 and A9 of the exchange of 2026-10-20 put it, on the owner’s U8 question about “contextuality/relativity/subjectivity”. A8 §9: “the underlying system is objectively real, while some scientifically meaningful properties of its descriptions are objectively relational.” A9: “an individuation claim can be objectively assessed once its relevant organizational criteria are specified”, and “A system may exhibit several objectively grounded forms of unity that need not share the same boundary.” CLAIM-152 gives the relativity; this claim adds that relativity is not arbitrariness. It bears on QUESTION-065 without answering it. It does not say which criterion is right. | Active |
| CLAIM-528 | That a mechanism realizes a capacity can mean that the capacity is produced through it over time or that the capacity consists in it at a time, and interventions show only the first: a pathway whose disabling changes the capacity after a delay is a cause, can be intervened on surgically, and can be located relative to a declared boundary, whereas every intervention on a capacity that consists in its parts also changes some part along another path, so that relation is underdetermined by intervention data and is inferred by abduction or from simultaneity and settled parthood; and which of the two a given dependence is depends on the time resolution at which a description treats the parts’ response as instantaneous | Filed on reading the fat-handedness debate after Craver: Baumgartner & Gebharter 2016, Baumgartner & Casini 2017 and Baumgartner, Casini & Krickel 2020. It says what their result does and does not reach in the record. CLAIM-522’s conclusion is causal and is left standing; CLAIM-515’s “realized”, read synchronically, is not shown by discriminating interventions; and the debate’s own line between causation and constitution, simultaneity, moves with the time scale, as CLAIM-480’s chain shows. It does not say that constitution is unknowable, or that the record’s organizations have constituents in the mechanists’ sense. | Proposed |
| CLAIM-530 | Where maintenance is realized is a question of constitutive relevance only through its parthood condition: an internal producer and an outside controller supplying the same production law as state feedback meet mutual manipulability’s two manipulability conditions identically, since disabling or stimulating either changes the maintained capacities and intervening on the capacities changes the activity of either, so what puts one inside and the other outside is parthood, a boundary the experiments presuppose and do not find | The record’s join of CLAIM-522 with the mechanist account of constitution, from Craver and Bechtel’s admission that interlevel experiments are symmetrical and show componency only prima facie (THEORY-1287). In CLAIM-522’s pair the bottom-up and top-down interventions come out alike for producer and controller. So the criterion separates them only by its parthood clause, which is CLAIM-522’s declared boundary. Proposed: the criterion’s statement is taken from secondary sources. It does not say no criterion can draw the boundary. Closure, a producer that is itself maintained by what it produces, is a candidate that CLAIM-522’s one-variable model cannot express. | Proposed |