The Map is Not the Territory crowd—Korzybski and General Semantics practicioners—dealt in depth with just the issues you raise, so much so that they have particular terms for what you’re getting at—the Is of Identity, the Is of Predication, and intensional versus extensional statements.
You’re plowing the same dirt. I think you should refer to them, and show how you either extend what they did, or depart from what they did.
The Map is Not the Territory crowd—Korzybski and General Semantics practicioners—dealt in depth with just the issues you raise, so much so that they have particular terms for what you’re getting at—the Is of Identity, the Is of Predication, and intensional versus extensional statements.
You’re plowing the same dirt. I think you should refer to them, and show how you either extend what they did, or depart from what they did.