Site essay
The Record-Based Turn
Why facts, objects, selves, worlds, and outcomes should not be treated as primitively given.
Overview
Record-Based Ontology begins from the refusal to treat facts, objects, selves, worlds, and outcomes as already individuated merely because some physical difference exists. A difference becomes definite for a finite system when it enters a stable structure of traces, records, access, comparison, correction, or update.
Role in the RBO project
This item belongs to the Start Here section of the RBO website. It should be read according to its status label: Site essay.
RBO is a BCT-derived philosophical framework for individuation. This item contributes to the project’s account of finite systems, stable traces/records, individuation, continuity, correction, and definite outcomes, while BCT remains the physics-facing core where quantum measurement is concerned.