When Non-Constitution Does Not Entail Non-Application: External Application in Kasei-Theory
Kasei-Theory was developed as a non-modal structural framework whose core is not constituted by its application to external domains. Earlier formulations combined Application Non-Constitution with strong non-applicability and non-transfer commitments whose practical effect left no articulated route to target-answerable external application. This paper argues that the stronger inference is unnecessary. Application need not constitute the core, and configurations need not transfer between domains, for constraint-preserving external application to remain possible. The paper therefore revises the boundary between non-modal constitution and domain-specific use without converting Kasei-Theory into an applied theory. External application is defined as a defeasible research construction in which a source-side role, reconstructible through its constitutive constraints, is used within a specified target problem, scope, and analytic purpose. Such use may be direct or mediated, but its result cannot be determined by the source framework alone: it must remain answerable to target-side considerations whose warrant is not exhausted by the source role. Interface contact, application, downstream analytical propagation, comparative distinctiveness, and core-directed pressure are consequently separated. A case concerning large-language-model understanding—historically developed from Anti-Semantics rather than as an application of Kasei-Theory—is reconstructed as a worked, failure-capable candidate stress test rather than presented as prior evidence of successful Kasei-Theory application. The resulting account revises the earlier methodological closure around non-applicability by admitting constrained external application while retaining the non-modal constitution and non-transfer of Kasei-Theory configurations.
Authors
- Juza Minamikata
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-08-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22122609
- Primary Topic
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Type
- preprint