This study examines whether distinguishable state constitutes a more primitive ontological category than objecthood, relation, or informational bit in physics. Using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and a process of ontological reduction, the investigation progressively removes assumptions associated with particles, fields, geometry, and informational objects. A minimal framework emerges in which distinguishable states are treated as admissible primitives, relations arise among distinguishable states, and stable configurations emerge through lawful updates. Existing Eclipta constructs are reinterpreted as stable relational configurations rather than fundamental entities. The principal result is the proposal that distinguishable state provides a candidate primitive from which relation, stable configuration, and physical articulation may emerge. A concluding architectural result then proposes that state-stabilising change requires a minimum three-role architecture consisting of a distributed state, a lawful update, and a stable state. Implications for Wheeler-style informational ontologies, gravitational-wave interpretation, photon admissibility, and regulatory constants are discussed.
William Smith (Thu,) studied this question.