CO-001 - Continuity Ontology: A Foundational Ontology of Persistence, Recoverability, Identity, Irreversibility, and Continuity Across State Transition

CO-001 formalizes a continuity-centered ontology governing persistence, recoverability, identity, irreversibility, admissibility, and continuity across state evolution within the Recoverability-Constrained Systems corpus. The framework establishes continuity not merely as an operational property of systems, but as a foundational ontological condition governing the persistence of distinguishable entities across transition. The ontology formalizes: state, transition, continuity, persistence, identity, recoverability, irreversibility, dependency, admissibility, collapse, reconstruction, continuity topology, as primitive ontological structures. CO-001 establishes identity as continuity preserved across admissible transition and formalizes existence as recoverable distinguishability preserved across transition. Under this interpretation, biological systems, informational systems, institutions, ecosystems, civilizations, computational systems, and artificial intelligence systems are treated as continuity-bearing entities whose persistence depends upon recoverable transition conditions. The framework derives from the recursive conceptual boundary conditions established in:TCB-001 - Terminal Conceptual Boundaryhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20128402 CO-001 functions as the ontological foundation beneath: continuity mathematics, continuity logic, continuity science, substrate sciences, civilization continuity architectures, recoverability-constrained operational systems. The publication establishes continuity ontology as: a recoverability-centered ontology of persistence, a formal continuity ontology, and an ontological bridge between recursive conceptual boundary conditions and operational continuity systems. CO-001 formalizes continuity ontology as the foundational ontological layer beneath continuity mathematics, continuity logic, continuity science, substrate sciences, and civilization continuity architectures within the Recoverability-Constrained Systems corpus.