An Epistemological Question

Yes, but the subjective frame requires a perceiver and a perceived, or at least two things = multiplicity, which you had seemed to deny.

Okay, but I didn’t think that that was the sort of multiplicity the OP had in mind. I thought he meant a multiplicity of perceptions for one thing, as in two people looking at a Picasso and one rejoicing while the other vomits. If he’s talking about a perceiver and a perceived, than we’re all the way back in Plato’s cave — not really a very interesting discussion.

Truth before Interest!

I used to think that pattern was perhaps the ultimate principle. However, after reading a couple of books on Quantum Mechanics, the whole quantum foam concept changed my mind. I think that the reality we percieve (the Being in my list) is composed from the interplay of pattern and chaos. As for an ultimate metaphysical principle, I am more inclined to agree with Alfred N. Whitehead and give that spot to process.

Could be that if I read what you read I’d agree.

By “pattern” I mean, at rock bottom, immutable principles–things that could not be otherwise, such as the value of pi (in a circle in a 2d plane, people!). Even chaotic systems will be founded on coherent patterns at some level (I do not necessarily mean material).