anyone know if there's already a well-established word in the philosophy literature or something for "ontological splitting" - the process of separating out what was previously one category in your ontology into two or more categories?
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david chapman has "ontological remodeling" for the general process but remodeling can involve splitting or fusing or all sorts of other things
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In plurality (not what you're asking for but it does cause an ontological split) it's called either split or shatterel (if into many pieces)
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Maybe "conceptual analysis" stuff from philosophical logic, analytic traditions, I'll try to actually find something but I remember some possibly useful things from school @_@
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Phaedrus’s Knife is what I call this. Reference from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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IDK, but if it's "your ontology" and you create a new *distinction* (h/t to commenter below), then it sounds like you just have a whole new metaphysic (or ontology or whatever).
Just sounds like conceptual revision (or the work of philosophy itself).