00 Ground / Ground
Ground
Ground names the available condition from which Natural Order unfolds. Where Relation names the structural primitive from which the dependency spine begins, Ground names what holds prior to that beginning — the condition the system acknowledges without claiming to derive. Ground is not a term within the dependency spine; it is what the first-order boundary protects against collapsing into the system's own structure.
Trace
Ground is prior to the system's first-order boundary. It is acknowledged but not defined within the system.
Read
Ground becomes recognisable where Natural Order can be read as participating in something rather than being engineered from nothing — where the available condition holds before any structural move is made.