pluralistic constraint on homology

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Editorial synthesis · provisional

Definition

The pluralistic constraint on homology requires cross-domain comparison to preserve differences of mechanism, scale, function, temporality and evidence. On Becoming aligns real potential and relational resolution in Simondon and Kastner without making crystals, organisms and quantum events identical. The fit supports a coherent philosophical vocabulary, while the manuscript explicitly refuses to treat selected conceptual agreement as the independent convergence of two experimental witnesses.

Explanation

Simondon’s concepts shift semantic weight across physical, biological and psychosocial domains, whereas Kastner’s account is constrained by quantum formalism. Their temporal descriptions also differ: growing crystallization unfolds in time, while a transaction’s internal structure is pre-spatiotemporal and its product spans a null interval. The proposal retains both differences rather than smoothing them away.

The manuscript explicitly says selection of aligned frameworks makes their coherence a virtue of fit, not independent confirmation. AB acknowledges the same selection effect, and RB1 notes empirical equivalence among quantum interpretations in tested regimes. Agreement between these vocabularies therefore does not supply a fresh experimental warrant for the broader ontology.

Later working criteria require independently specified shared roles, a checkable transferable expectation and disanalogies that do not defeat the transfer. RB3 adds that a domain must be able to refuse a forced analogy. AB’s Stengers note frames comparison as bridge-making questions rather than interpretive jurisdiction, keeping the constraint active in subsequent cross-scale claims.

Scope and attribution

Retain the comparison’s disciplinary, temporal and evidential limits.

AB — The Actual Book

Selected convergence is qualified and bridge-making gives no interpretive jurisdiction.

Occurrence locators: 34, 37; Notes: 245.

RB1 — The Real Book, Volume I: The Possible Is Real

The homology keeps domain and temporal differences and does not convert fit into independent experimental confirmation.

Occurrence locators: 102, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 186, 187, 189, 268.

RB3 — The Real Book, Volume III: Murmurations

A comparison remains realist only if the addressed domain can contest it.

Occurrence locators: 101, 135, 136.

Background used in the editorial explanation

Named theories and mechanisms are distinguished from neighboring background, homonyms and the author’s own synthesis. Reproduced AI passages retain their separate voice.