Reconstructive Individuation of Intellectual Transformations: Addressability, Uptake, and Transductive Participation

Digital infrastructures increasingly represent intellectual materials at fine levels of granularity, including claims, reasoning steps, activities, provenance relations, and intermediate reasoning structures. Yet such units do not by themselves determine whether a singular transformation in the organization of an intellectual situation can be reconstructed as an addressable object. This paper develops a conceptual framework for the reconstructive individuation of intellectual transformations. It distinguishes transformation from result, occurrence from reconstruction, and introduces S1 → T → S2 as a minimal notation for making organizational change explicit without reducing it to a predefined segment or reasoning primitive. It further distinguishes addressability, discoverability, encounter, uptake, and transductive participation as different conditions under which a reconstructed transformation may become relevant across situations. Relations between transformations are derived from reconstructible participation in situated events of genesis rather than from direct inheritance or structural identity, allowing source and target transformations to differ morphologically. The resulting genealogy is a diachronic structure of warranted participations.The framework does not provide an automatic detector or an implemented infrastructure. It specifies theoretical objects, relations, and failure conditions that a future shared transductive milieu would need to preserve.