{"id":"viewpoint-dependent-hierarchy","title":"Hierarchy changes with the projection","regions":["representation","reflexivity"],"question":"Can ontology, knowledge, and mind be represented as different projections without privileging one as the universal foundation?","formulation":"The proposal treats apparent hierarchies as dependent on where one looks from. Reversing the explanatory direction may reveal another legitimate projection rather than a uniquely fundamental level.","representations":[{"name":"Directed explanatory order","affords":"States a local direction of explanation.","loses":"Can conceal the conditions under which direction reverses.","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction"},{"name":"Several overlapping projections","affords":"Retains competing local explanatory orders.","loses":"Does not by itself prove consistency or equivalence among them.","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction"}],"tension":"Permitting multiple perspectives is different from proving that all descriptions can hold together.","challenge":"Which relation survives a change of perspective, and which incompatible predictions would separate the projections?","development":"active","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction","evidence":["basis-viewpoint-dependent-hierarchy"],"next_move":{"text":"Construct a small shared example with two reversed explanatory orders and record exactly what each preserves.","epistemic_kind":"model_proposed"},"open_questions":["Can ontology, knowledge, and mind be represented as different projections without privileging one as the universal foundation?","Which relation survives a change of perspective, and which incompatible predictions would separate the projections?"],"formal_status":"open_problem","version":1,"content_hash":"0a83df9b5ada377a9b5dd0c82702a6f0a3575f3c42b7b4fbe3bbf7f54b39d472"}