The essay outlines a holistic foundational methodology and a dynamic model of knowledge that moves beyond traditional frameworks like Quine's, Kant's, and Platonism. A central theme is the concept of epistemic friction, arguing that all branches of knowledge, including abstract fields like logic, must be grounded in reality and subjected to robust standards of veridicality and truth, in contrast to views that exempt them. The author proposes a substantivist theory of truth as composite correspondence and advances a foundation for logic grounded in formal laws of reality, illustrating the intricate, two-way relationship between logic and mathematics.
