Evolutionary Manifestation and Ontological Retrieval: A Philosophy (Paper I) Breaking the Root of the Impasse in the History of Philosophy and Founding the Primacy of Consistent Universal Evolution

The history of human philosophy has long been trapped in a structural impasse marked by sectarian fragmentation, cognitive closure, and mutual exclusion among schools of thought. Although each ideological system possesses its own cognitive value, it remains confined to a specific local cognitive dimension, unable to break through hierarchical barriers. The root cause lies in the failure of traditional cognition to grasp the universal wholeness of cosmic existence, mistakenly equating cognitively constructed truth with the authentic reality of Being. This paper establishes its core thesis: the primary, authentic reality of cosmic existence is the law of consistent universal evolution. This law is boundless, encompasses all beings and causal chains, is an original reality prior to human cognition, and possesses universal uniqueness and necessity. Truth, by contrast, is not an independent entity, but merely human designation and reference to partial moments and orders within consistent evolution. No absolute truth exists apart from evolution. The human cognitive mechanism is essentially an adaptive exploratory pathway formed around the law of consistent universal evolution: local feature extraction, polarisation processing, and logical generalisation are all legitimate stages in approaching the evolutionary origin. Using the apple as a paradigmatic example, humans extract core characteristics such as form and taste, define evolutionary boundaries through polarised anchoring, and then explore generative mechanisms via logical generalisation, forming the basic paradigm of cognising the world. The flaw of traditional thought lies in the ontologisation of truth-references derived from local exploration, substituting local designations for the universal origin, thereby leading to cognitive confinement and ideological antagonism. Rejecting fragmented detail extraction, this paper performs only one holistic essential extraction, directly anchoring consistent universal evolution as the original ground of Being, thereby fundamentally avoiding the alienation of local cognition. It argues that the limitations of traditional thought stem not from factual error, but from hierarchical differences in cognitive horizon and dimension. Local cognition is always bounded by its own framework; only by stepping beyond the local to stand within the whole, and then viewing, defining, and employing the local from the whole, can human cognition achieve a genuine hierarchical leap. Using the apple as a sustained illustrative case, this paper constructs the methodology of ontological retrieval, providing a metaphilosophical framework for human thought to break free from fragmentation, return to authentic Being, and achieve cognitive elevation.