Ground Without Beings: Closing the Regress of Ontological Explanation
Serik B. Ryszhanov
Independent Researcher, Astana, Kazakhstan · Private Foundation «NAR-UQ»
This paper argues that the contemporary grounding debate has not resolved its central difficulty: any chain of grounds terminating in a fundamental being either generates an infinite regress or posits an unexplained primitive. An alternative ontological model is proposed in which the regress is closed not through a fundamental level of beings but through a structurally necessary configuration: Nothing → Selfhood → Information → Primary Distinction → Act of Selfhood → Change.
Keywords: grounding, metaphysical explanation, regress, distinction, Nothing, conditions of consistency, information, metaphysics.
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