he typical basic operation is to 
take a concept and say 'where in the heirarchy should this go?', and 
then maybe alter things if you can't find a good place to put it. 
Whereas, I would suggest, the better strategy would be to simply 
defer that kind of 'where to hang this?' decision until one has a 
reasonably extensive collection of theories each of which has a 
reasonably clear statement of the kinds of 'thing' it claims to be 
about and the assumptions it is making, and *then* synthesise an 
appropria