Scale-Conditioned Ontology: A Criterion for Transitions between Ontological Regimes

The article proposes to understand a change of scale not merely as a change in the level of detail, but as a possible transition between different ontological regimes. It introduces the concept of scale-conditioned ontology and proposes a qualitative criterion for scale transitions based on changes in the structure of objects, relations, and regularities that function as independent elements of description.