Theoretical analysis reveals mathematics as the fundamental structure of reality, indicating that multiplicity arises from a single self-referential generative source.
We articulate the ontology underlying the Metaphysic of the Intelligi- ble: mathematical realism as a complex monism. Mathematics is not a human invention, nor a language, nor a tool—it is the structure of reality itself, accessible through the geometry of the intelligible. The ground, 0exponent0, a self-referential, generative unity that produces multiplicity without frag- mentation. This is not Platonism, nor nominalism, nor materialism—it is a complex monism: a single source that generates all distinction, rela- tion, and coherence. We argue that this ontology is not a metaphysical assumption but an inference from the coherence of the framework.
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Theriault et al. (2026) studied this question.