Freedom as Ground: A Structural Argument
The foundational paper; argues that Freedom is the sole unconditioned ground and develops the first-order ontology of worldframes and monads.
Abstract
I argue that the grounding regress terminates not in a brute particular but in Freedom, understood as unconditioned self-constitution. The argument proceeds in three stages: first, I show that any conditioned ground generates the regress; second, I introduce the notion of a worldframe and show how worldframes are individuated by their monadic inhabitants; third, I argue that Freedom, thus specified, satisfies the requirements for a genuine terminus of grounding. The result is a structural metaphysics in which freedom is not a problem to be solved but the condition of possibility for any problem-space.
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Claims defended
Freedom is not one fundamental among others but the condition of possibility for any conditioned structure; all else is …
The identity of a worldframe is not given independently of the monadic perspectives that inhabit it; inhabitation is con…