From Scholastic Substance to Relational Configuration
Particle metaphysics often repeats scholastic habits: matter as discrete, inert substance, endowed with inherent properties. Physics inherits this vocabulary, treating particles as things that “exist” independently.
Relationally, particles are nodes of process, not isolated substances. Their properties emerge only in interaction, as relational potentials actualise. What we detect as a particle is a pattern of stability, a configuration that persists across relational cuts.
Matter is thus a dynamic pattern, not a building block of reality. Relational ontology replaces substance with structured potential actualised through interaction.
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