Chapter 39: The Ontology-Epistemology Dissolution

The two branches of philosophy—ontology (what exists) and epistemology (what we know)—collapse into a single structural discipline. The traditional gap between being and knowing is an artefact of substance ontology: if reality is one substance and the mind another, a gap opens. In relational ontology, the observer is a node in the same relational web as the observed. Knowing is traversing the address space. The Ontology-Epistemology Collapse Theorem (VII.T18) shows that, for any E₃ observer with sufficient resources, the category of admissible ontological constructions and the category of knowledge-sections are equivalent. Skepticism, idealism, and naïve realism are all dissolved as consequences of this structural fact.