The Gap as a Condition - Pre-Ontological Operatorics and the Primacy of Response

This paper formulates a theoretical interim position on the role of operators within a pre-ontological framework. It starts from the observation that central phenomena of modern physics, social theory, and epistemic practice cannot be understood as entities, fields, or things without generating paradoxes. Instead, it proposes to conceive of operators as response structures to non-eliminable gaps. The gap thus appears not as a deficit or lack of knowledge, but as a constitutive condition of reality. The aim of the text is not to provide a final theory, but to secure a conceptual framework within which the gap can be worked with, without closing it ontologically. This paper functions as an interface text within a larger operator-based research corpus. Core concepts are applied here, not re-derived. The underlying research operates in a non-linear, rhythmically recursive epistemic mode grounded in an autistic form of structural perception; the present text provides an interface translation for academic contexts.