Research note

Against Fantology as a spine for the whole corpus

Cross-corpus synthesis: Smith’s “Against Fantology” #CGE2NC as a philosophical spine for the library.

Smith’s targets — the Spreadsheet Ontology #Y7TY94 set-theoretic reduction #ZCA9UM time-insensitivity #6664AF flattened relations #Q95W24 Booleanism #VAA4FX missing dependent continuants #D6BEJX — map onto the other folders:

  1. Alexander/living structure: anti-atomism and holism #3GDQTX tone example #ZCA9UM parallels centers existing only through mutual reinforcement #BYG3BQ Smith’s formal ties (inherence, participation, dependence, #WRVKYL are a candidate formalization of center-relations, distinct from Boolean feature checklists (relevant to Beautimeter #MH5J8D

  2. Process-first terrain: erosion-based generation #96ZMGK #DWXKYQ and legacy sediment / anthropogenic fingerprints #K82AS7 #2284QZ treat landform as residue of process particulars — Smith’s Sextet #8MW8B5 gives processes first-class status. Heightfields = spreadsheet ontology of terrain. Alexander’s structure-preserving transformations #ZU8GZV and generative codes #XW22YY make the same move in design.

  3. Trails as dependent continuants: Helbing trails #UYLTYJ #B6P8L4 inhere in ground, are sustained by walking processes, fade when process stops — not substances.

  4. Behavioral programming: b-threads/LSCs as named first-class occurrents #M5788P match Smith’s enhanced Davidsonism #YAM8TJ “unmodeling” #XQ5NKX is explicit ontological-commitment management, cf. Johansson’s default ontologization #GBKGKS

  5. PCG/KR: Smith notes fantology’s reach into KR #DE7S2J Tile/tensor level representations #CQBDX4 encode attribute co-occurrence, not dependence/participation; hence post-hoc playability inference #9NQ94D and agent validation #WZ8DHP

  6. Ellerman: partition logic #GANFP9 #C8FHDZ is a mathematically worked-out non-Boolean alternative, sibling to Smith’s anti-Booleanism; property-theoretic accounting #7ESDBJ keeps property, bearer, and transaction-process distinct.

  7. Heidegger/Kohr: fantology as logical Gestell revealing reality as standing-reserve #67REFX Smith’s “bland” universal predication #R7YGMR #FTE6H6 parallels Kohr’s scale-indifference critique #WYH36B

Thread: most folders in the library resist the spreadsheet ontology in their own idiom — processes, dependence, and wholes over static attribute-assays.