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Preprint . 2026
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From Natural Law to Relational Ordering: Unity as Enacted, Not Intrinsically Given

Authors: Rogers, Timothy;

From Natural Law to Relational Ordering: Unity as Enacted, Not Intrinsically Given

Abstract

This paper develops a systematic account of relational ordering that extends and deepens the claim that determinacy is relationally achieved. Beginning from classical accounts of natural law, it argues that unity cannot be understood as intrinsically given or secured by fully determinative law. Instead, unity must be located within the enacted alignment of relational processes. Three irreducible modes of relational ordering are distinguished: synchronicity (temporal alignment of enacted distinctions), recursion (structured continuation through signalling), and return (reintegration into compatibility). Unity emerges where these modes converge. This framework reinterprets law as relational governance rather than pre-determination and situates identity as stabilized coherence within hierarchical mediation. The account is developed across biology, interactive formal systems (large language models), and quantum mechanics. The result is a metaphysical position that preserves realism and patterned stability while relocating their ground from intrinsic isolation to relational enactment. Unity, on this view, is not given in advance but achieved through the ongoing alignment of relational ordering.

Keywords

biosemiotics, Relational ontology, large language models, interpretations of quantum mechanics

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