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The Divine Paradox: Ontological Instability as the Foundation of Human Understanding

Tan, Kwan Hong
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This text is not merely a contribution to the discourse of metaphysics. It is a deliberate act of philosophical departure - a genesis point for what may become a new mode of inquiry: Fluctuational Metaphysics. At its heart lies a radical yet intuitive proposition - that ontological instability, far from being a philosophical problem, is the very substrate from which understanding emerges. For millennia, metaphysical thought has sought grounding - in substance, essence, divinity, or logic. But what if the pursuit of metaphysical stability has obscured reality’s truest impulse? What if instability itself is not a flaw to be corrected, but a generative field to be explored? This manuscript ventures into that terrain. It affirms a paradox: the instability of all things includes the instability of instability itself. From this recursive edge, a new metaphysical ethos emerges - one not based on immutable truths, but on resonance, participation, and coherence under flux. Fluctuational Metaphysics does not seek final answers. It seeks usable maps. It is philosophy not as judgment, but as design; not as authority, but as craft. It accepts that reality cannot be proven in the old sense - only co-created, navigated, and revised. To those trained in traditional metaphysical schools, this work may feel destabilizing. That is its intent. This is not philosophy as ornamentation of legacy; it is a prototype for reality-making. Its goal is not to ask, “What is the world made of?” but rather, “How shall we make meaning amid what refuses to remain fixed?” Let this not be read as a closing claim, but as an opening invitation. This is not a conclusion. It is a beginning.
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