In classical Chinese philosophy there’s the concept of shi-fei or “this not that”. A key bit of the idea, among other things, is that all knowledge involves making distinctions, and those distinctions are judgments, and so if you want to have knowledge and put things into words you have to make this-not-that style judgements of distinction to decide what goes in what category.
More recently here on the forum, Abram has written about teleosemantics, which seems quite relevant to your investigations in this post.
In classical Chinese philosophy there’s the concept of shi-fei or “this not that”. A key bit of the idea, among other things, is that all knowledge involves making distinctions, and those distinctions are judgments, and so if you want to have knowledge and put things into words you have to make this-not-that style judgements of distinction to decide what goes in what category.
More recently here on the forum, Abram has written about teleosemantics, which seems quite relevant to your investigations in this post.