The engineering principles of concept formation

The study of distinction and its dynamics

Every category is a cut through a continuum.

We study what the cut does —
and what it leaves behind.

Research

Five areas

How distinction emerges

How distinction works

What it does under pressure

Where distinctions come from

From proof to runtime

If concept formation has engineering principles, those principles apply wherever concepts form.

Publications

The Failure of Reflection: Différance, Stabilization, and the Resistance to Crystallization

École Normale Supérieure (ENS) Paris

From Smoothing to Stability: Contradiction, Delay, and the Development of Resilient Minds with AI

CSIC Madrid

The Fold as Dialogue: Toward a Recursive Formalism

University of Konstanz

From Borrowed Templates to Working Models: Stabilization as Policy Settlement in Cultural Evolution

Leibniz University Hannover

Writing

Your model says 90%. It does not say what kind of 90% it is.

A companion that can be fully predicted is no longer a companion. A companion that cannot be governed is no longer safe.

No beliefs. No stored rules. No explicit logic. Yet the output is structured.