Krimel --
G. Spencer Brown in an attempt to build a mathematics out of shear logic maintained that to get a mathematics, any mathematic, the first step is to "draw a distinction" that is, to establish a relationship.
BINGO! Your mathematician has defined the ontological principle of relation. Experiential existence IS relation -- ALL relation. Being is divided, events are divided, awareness is divided. And they all relate to each other.
I suspect the first distinction might be between something and nothing or between 0 and 1. This was a distinction so metaphysically abhorrent to the Greeks that they intentionally rejected it. They refused to acknowledge or use O. It wasn't until nearly a thousand years later that the number 0 was available to the west.
The first distinction (i.e., difference) is between absolute Oneness (your "something") and absolute nothingness. Although Oneness (Essence) is 'prime', numerality or its intellectual realization requires a cognizant subject. The zero refused by the Greeks figures in the logic of mathematics which is a relational system. That is, it connotes the absence of a numbered quantity. Primary nothingness establishes difference but relates only to absolute Essence. Difference must be broken down into relational existents by value-sensibility in order to actualize existence.
But in no sense is nothing an "agent." Nor does it make any sense to speak of sensibility as metaphysical. Sensibility is property of living things. It is a system of feedback. It is a property of relationship not relationship itself.
This is awkward, and I may not be choosing the proper terms, but the sensibility I refer to is not a biological response mechanism, such as what causes an amoeba to shrink from a toxic substance. Rather, it is "pure" value-sensibility which doesn't exist in the differentiated world, yet is necessary for proprietary awareness. That's why I classify sensibility as "metaphysical" -- to distinguish it from "existential". Once individuated (embodied) as a conscious organism, primary value-sensibility becomes the psycho-emotional 'being-aware'. Conscious awareness is not an existent or "entity"; it is the value agent that creates the appearance of relational existence. In that sense it is the 'negate' otherwise known as the cognizant Self of experiential reality.
I don't know if this makes any sense to you, but your mathematical premise is a useful analogy for the primary metaphysical dichotomy.
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