| Abstract [eng] |
The concept of lack appears across philosophy and economics as privation, scarcity, uneasiness, or phenomenological absence, yet it is typica lly treated as derivative of human experience or action rather than as a feature of being itself. This paper challenges that assumption. It advances the thesis that ontological lack is a necessary predicate of all finite beings and cannot be reduced to psychological, cultural, or experiential factors. The argument proceeds in three steps. First, it establishes that only a priori reasoning can justify universal and necessary ontological claims. Second, it clarifies ontology as the science of being qua being, gover ned by the principles of sufficient reason and non-contradiction. Third, it demonstrates that intelligible being must be determinate, that deter mination necessarily entails exclusion, and that this exclusion constitu tes modal absence, defined as ontological lack. Ontological lack is thus shown to apply universally to all finite beings in every logically possible world. Keywords: ontological lack, a priori reasoning, ontology, principle of sufficient reason, principle of non-contradiction. |
