Evoluism and the Structural Collapse of Strong Universal Theories

This article argues that any strong universal theory is structurally defective. A strong universal theory, as understood here, is any theoretical framework that claims universal validity for a single descriptive structure, set of distinctions, or regime of articulation, and thereby aspires to articulate Reality as such. From the standpoint of Evoluism, this ambition is illegitimate. A world is a local regime of manifestness in which differences are retained, stabilised, and made available for coordination, description, and explanation. Reality, by contrast, is not an entity, structure, or process within such a regime, but the limit-condition of the applicability of ontological categories. The article develops…