Minimal Ontological Foundation for World-Formation (MOF v5)

This paper is the ontological foundation of a theoretical program whose companion works report non-fitted structural readouts near several well-known dimensionless physical quantities, including - inverse fine-structure constant: FDC/SCR readout near α⁻¹ ≈ 137.035999,- proton/electron mass ratio: near 1836.152673,- muon/electron mass ratio: near 206.768283,- tau/electron mass ratio: near 3477.23,- MOND-type galactic scaling: v⁴ = G M a₀,- Hubble-scale and environmental residual structures. MOF itself does not compute these quantities directly. Its purpose is to provide the eliminative ontological foundation for the formal closure framework FDC, from which the later numerical and physical readout layers are constructed. The paper treats existence not as constructive generation from nothing, but as the minimal structural residue that survives the exclusion of non-admissible descriptions. From this starting point, it develops distinction-structure, finite resolution, internal update order, measurement, probability, and global/internal description as unavoidable structural residues of world-formation. Within the broader MOF–FDC–PFC–SCR–AOH program: - MOF provides the eliminative ontological foundation.- FDC provides the formal finite-distinguishability closure framework.- PFC provides the physical reading layer.- SCR records structural constant readouts.- AOH applies the same grammar to Hubble-scale and galactic-scale phenomena. Readers interested in numerical and formal consequences may begin with FDC or SCR and then return to MOF as the foundational layer. Readers interested in cosmological or galactic applications may begin with AOH. Readers interested in quantum foundations may begin with PFC. This paper should be read as the foundational layer of the program, not as a standalone numerical fitting paper.