Ontosystematics is the positive conceptual science of ontological nodes: their identity, composition, difference, inheritance, migration, transformation, and recombination across the habitats that host them. Its founding distinction separates a habitat — any historically occurring formation that hosts, warrants, orders, or explains ontological determinations, whether cosmological, poetic, theological, juridical, logical, naturalistic, scientific, metaphysical, or a-metaphysical — from an ontological node, an isolable determination concerning being, individuated by its content, scope, polarity, and inferential role rather than by its vocabulary, provenance, or habitat-specific warrant. Habitats occur historically; nodes are identifiable across their occurrences. A node may survive the dissolution of the habitat that first warranted it, migrate into an incompatible habitat, separate from nodes with which it once travelled, and recombine with others. The science identifies, states, tests, and types ontological delta — the typed difference between two maximally reconstructed articulations of a determination concerning being — and distinguishes the delta-undetermined case, where adjudication is incomplete and novelty remains open, from an adjudicated zero-delta finding, where after maximal reconstruction and gate closure no typed difference survives. "Zero" expresses logical nullity after adjudication, not a lowest magnitude on a scale. Delta is typed, never measured. Relations fall in four families: delta relations between articulations (inheritance, augmentation, subtraction, transformation, reversal); complex-formation relations (combination, recombination, convergence); occurrence-history relations (transmission, migration, reactivation, recurrence); and one lateral relation, the collateral relation — symmetric, non-transitive, holding between complexes neither derivable from the other, addressing the same determination-space, with mutually independent complements, at least one denying a determination at the other's centre. Relations are assigned componentwise: a single global label may not replace the node-level ledger. Its first law is Montaruli's Razor: ontological doctrines should not be multiplied beyond their ontological differences; a later position must be assessed by what it changes in the maximal prior articulation of the relevant determination concerning being; where no ontological delta can yet be stated, novelty remains an open question. Its complementary canon requires that every position first be addressed in its full power. The habitat/node distinction becomes available only where ontology is released from metaphysical government — the ordering of ontological determinations under a primary term that authorises, explains, or ranks the others while occupying a privileged position. That release is performed by Ethical Ontology and constitutes the region's institution; ontosystematic practice is thereafter operationally independent and classifies Ethical Ontology's own nodes without immunity. This deposit registers the controlling architecture of the founding article, including its elementary objects, its identity criterion, its first law, and its reflexive self-test. No historical firstness is claimed. Files are withheld pending publication.
Alessio Montaruli (2026) studied this question.