Taxonomy as Chiseling: A Self-as-an-End Theory of Classification / 分类即凿构:Self-as-an-End 的分类学理论

Full bilingual text and framework available at self-as-an-end.net What makes a taxonomy good? This paper proposes an answer from within the Self-as-an-End framework, primarily addressing taxonomies of complex, developable objects — persons, organizations, cultures, psychiatric conditions. The core thesis: taxonomy is an act of chiseling and constructing. Every taxonomy chisels by selecting certain dimensions and excluding others; every taxonomy constructs by establishing types, names, and relationships. The fundamental risk of taxonomy is not classifying wrongly, but forgetting that one has chiseled — the construct claiming to have no remainder. This forgetting is the onset of taxonomic colonization. The paper derives a two-level structure of taxonomic conditions (ontological: acknowledging the remainder; technical: structural grounding, framework-internal completeness, discriminative power, inter-type dynamics, dynamism, propagability), argues for the co-presence of a priori and a posteriori in good taxonomy, analyzes colonization and cultivation risks, and advances four non-trivial predictions with falsification conditions. 什么使一个分类成为好的分类?本文从Self-as-an-End框架内部提出回答,主要针对复杂的可发展对象的分类——人格、精神疾病、组织与文化配置。核心论点:分类是一种凿构行为。每一次分类都在凿(选择维度的同时排除其他维度),每一次分类都在构(建立类型、名称和关系)。分类学最根本的风险不是分错了,而是忘了自己凿过——构宣称自己没有余项。这种遗忘是分类殖民化的起点。本文推导出分类条件的双层结构(存在论层面:承认余项;技术层面:结构根基、框架内完备性、区分度、类型间动力学、动态性、传播性),论证好的分类需要先验与后验的共同在场,分析分类的殖民与涵育风险,并提出四条附否证条件的非平凡预测。 Keywords Self-as-an-End, taxonomy, classification methodology, chiseling and constructing, remainder principle, colonization, cultivation, a priori, a posteriori, Kant categories, MBTI, Big Five, HC-16, personality taxonomy, taxonomic pluralism, structural grounding, completeness, discriminative power, inter-type dynamics, dynamism, propagability Related Identifiers 10.5281/zenodo.18528813 (isSupplementedBy) 10.5281/zenodo.18666645 (isSupplementedBy) 10.5281/zenodo.18727327 (isSupplementedBy) 10.5281/zenodo.18907264 (isSupplementedBy)