Recursive Ontology and the Limits of First-Philosophy: A Unified Account of Auditing, Self-Destruction, and Quantum Indeterminacy

Abstract

Contemporary philosophy faces a structural dilemma: either it grounds itself in some version of "being" (and thereby inherits the ancient burden of explaining why anything exists at all), or it retreats into anti-realism (and forfeits explanatory power). This paper proposes a third path—not a synthesis, but a dissolution. Using the recursive framework S_n = f(S_{n-1}, W_n, we argue that the category of "existence" itself is a stabilization product of recursive difference-structures, and therefore cannot legitimately function as a foundational concept. The paper proceeds by (i) deriving this conclusion from minimal premises independent of the recursive framework itself, (ii) showing that self-destruction and self-construction are one and the same recursive operation viewed from incommensurable causal depths, and (iii) demonstrating that quantum measurement is precisely this operation manifesting at the physical limit. The result is not nihilism but a reorientation: philosophy does not end—it recognizes that its object and its method are phases of the same structure.