Quantum Discontinuity and Metaphysical Foundations
Keywords:
metaphysics, ontology, quantum discontinuity, causality, emergence, philosophy of scienceAbstract
The discovery of quantum discontinuity at the limit of empirical observation reveals that the most basic features of reality may not be causally determined but instead emerge from a non-causal basis. The traditional a priori application of first principles has long stood in the way of this possibility. Once this inherited assumption is suspended, it becomes evident that the classical framework is both unsustainable and circular: it presupposes the very continuity it seeks to ground. Recognising this invites a reassessment of how intelligibility itself arises, pointing toward an ontic foundation in which causality emerges from non-causality as the starting point for being itself. This relation manifests ontologically in experience as the complementarity of discontinuity and continuity, grounding philosophical explanation.
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