Let us begin with a simple gesture.To notice something is already to distinguish it. Yet before distinction there is not yet a thing, a background, a one, or an other.There is the undistinguished: not emptiness, not chaos, and not a state among other states, but the absence of operative distinctions.Distinction Ontology follows one minimal unfolding from this beginning through relation, direction, form, locality, knowledge, history, and symbol, before turning toward the generative work through which such structures arise and are reorganized.Rather than describe this movement from outside, the project follows its unfolding, tracing how apparently given structures arise and how they may be reopened.Nothing that appears given — object, subject, identity, knowledge, rule, or world — is absolutely primary. Each is the retained result of some work of distinction. The result becomes stable, then conceals its own origin, becomes exhausted, and can be reopened as material for another distinction.
This is the basic gesture of the ontology. The work that follows explores a possible language in which high abstraction and complex content, long treated as opposing poles, can be expressed together.
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Prompt
What is the Distinction Ontology project about, how does its argument unfold, and what are its main theses? Use https://do.relog.run/llms.txt as a guide.