How Can What Comes Before Difference Be Described?

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-08-26
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Interdisciplinary Studies and Sociocultural Dynamics
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How Can What Comes Before Difference Be Described?

Kyung Su Kim
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Interdisciplinary Studies and Sociocultural Dynamics
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How Can What Comes Before Difference Be Described?

Kyung Su Kim
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Abstract

This paper clarifies the relation among This, X, and Difference, the starting point of GGM (Generative General Methodology), and analyses which conceptual boundaries a theoretical language must observe when it undertakes to describe what comes before Difference. The core of the problem is that every language that would describe what precedes Difference already employs distinction and determination. Consequently, at the very moment minimal givenness is conceptualized, there arises the risk of projecting back onto the described object itself the Difference that belongs only to the theoretical description. In GGM, This is minimal givenness, not determined in advance as subject, object, substance, being, sense datum, or empirical event. X is not an independent thing or substance lying between This and Difference; it is the pre-differential structural openness that marks the fact that This is not identical with Difference. Difference is the first explicit distinction, and it is the first analytical starting point from which Relation, Recursive Difference, Depth, MetaDepth, Formal Horizon, and Structure can unfold. The paper stresses that the arrangement of This, X, and Difference is not an order of temporal occurrence or a causal chain of generation but a relation of logical priority. It further argues that X must not be identified with possibility, with a latent Structure, with the Hegelian nothing, with the Fichtean not-I, or with dialectical mediation. These comparisons are not made in order to reduce GGM's concepts to other philosophical systems, but in order to bring out what each starting strategy presupposes and what it withholds. The paper then treats the paradox of naming. The very names "This", "X", and "Difference" already employ Difference within the theoretical language; yet this metalinguistic Difference does not entail that the same Difference was already present within the object described. This allows minimal givenness and the first explicit distinction to be kept apart while the relation between them is described without excessive ontological claims. The aim of the paper is not to posit a completed substance or a hidden principle of generation before Difference. It is rather to make explicit the boundary a theory must not overstep when it speaks of what comes before Difference, and to present GGM's Foundation as a rigorous entry structure connecting to the subsequent Structure Formation, Universalization River, and Individualization River. This paper is a study of Part I Foundation of GGM Volume I: an analysis of the conceptual boundaries of This, X, and Difference that registers no new official concept or formula. This record contains both the English and the Korean edition.

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