From Presence to Attribution: Continuity, Differentiation, and the Justification of Being in MARP

This article offers a theoretical clarification within MARP by tracing a single argumentative sequence from the impossibility of ontological nothingness to a revised account of objecthood, attribution, and truth. Ontological nothingness cannot function as an original explanatory term, because positing it as an independent counterpart to the absolute already subjects the absolute to differentiation and thereby compromises its absoluteness. The argument then turns to presence, not as an external proof of being, but as the non-negatable limit within which denial itself must occur. From there, the demand for proof is shown to presuppose difference and relation, and thus continuity. Continuity in turn excludes both nothingness and a silent, undifferentiated origin. On this basis, the object is no longer treated as prior to attribution; objecthood emerges through attribution as a stabilized determination within a determinate horizon of reading. Truth is accordingly redefined, not as simple correspondence between mind and a ready-made object, but as disciplined reading responsive to a differentiation no single determination can exhaust. Error, revision, and the advancement of understanding then become intelligible as internal to attributed reading rather than external to it. The result is an account of being in MARP that preserves ontological seriousness without converting the absolute into an object of predication.