We have the same goal.
  My "decontextualization" of hard-line words and concepts was a
  way to verify for myself that, "Ok, it's babble. BUT..."
  and now I'm in the "But..." part.

  Here's a thought to consider, as it's the direction I've chosen.
  See if you can answer the categorization issue for yourself,
  entirely subjectively. Find your own threads and categories...
  use real-world systems that exist for categorization of
  knowledge to categorize yourself. See what fits. See what
  doesn't.

  I've taken that approach and it's been extremely helpful to me
  because I'm starting to be able to see "myself" as I might been
  seen from "the future if I was a historican studying me and my
  writings and thoughts.

  How will John Lepouras be categorized on a shelf?

  If he wrote 1000 books, where would they go?

  Stuff like that. _very_ helpful for me and it's leading me
  towards the direction I _really_ want - which is where you're
  going as well. One example of many;a simple one; took all the
  words I wrote and collected in one place (forget the vine and id
  but the rest qualify) over a period of 27 years to get a decent
  sampling of word frequency. Within the word frequency are some
  patterns implying my "way", although it's basic. Still the
  volume of data helps give it some validity in some sense. Or my
  other project - my favorite - using
  [1]http://act-dl.base-search.net/textclassifier to classify my
  writing style compared to academic papers that were trained
  using AI and it found "what I was talking about" (concepts),
  using a corpus of 9000+ writings I did. [not all of them but
  again, strong enough sample for it to have some validity] What I
  found interesting wasn't "where I fit", but rather "where I
  *don't fit" and I realized I was seeing the world through
  different eyes altogether than some people. I already knew it,
  but seeing it confirmed was marvelous.

  This map conforms to a dewey decimal 000-999. You can literally
  walk through the stacks and know that the Top and Middle rows
  are areas I'm going to write about.

  But the bottom row are things I NEVER write about _from their
  viewpoint_. I may talk *about* those things, but ONLY in "light
  of" - literally - as these were filters or sieves, the above two
  rows.

  Very englightening to me. I know you can't read it... the
  original is HUGE.. but it gets the idea across. My thinking is
  this:
  If I can't answer these questions FOR MYSELF,
  How could I possibly be in a position to answer them for ALL
  humanity?

References

  Visible links
  1. http://act-dl.base-search.net/textclassifier