Late MP's "a priori" is identical to Husserlian *allgemeinen Sinnesboden* — the a priori is *sol*, ground/soil — replacing Kantian categories and Hegelian Idea
ID: a-priori-as-sol-thesis Title: Late MP's "a priori" is identical to Husserlian allgemeinen Sinnesboden — the a priori is sol, ground/soil — replacing Kantian categories and Hegelian Idea Status: candidate Confidence: medium Claim type: thesis-central / structural-parallel Created: 2026-05-05 Updated: 2026-05-05 Sources: mendoza-canales-2026-institution-ontology-politics, merleau-ponty-2002-husserl-limits Wiki homes: soil-ground-sol, indirect-ontology
Claim
Late MP's "a priori" is identical to the Husserlian allgemeinen Sinnesboden — the a priori is sol, ground / soil / Boden — replacing Kantian categories and Hegelian Idea with a carnal-geological structural a priori. Not metaphor: literal philosophical-ontological substitution. Husserl at the Limits, p. 67: "But this 'structural' or concrete a priori is neither a Kantian category nor even a Hegelian idea; it is the allgemeinen Sinnesboden … = the sense finally, far from being an idea, is a ground." The thesis ("l'a priori est sol") names the ontological substitution effected: MP's late ontology operates with a ground-as-sense that is not categorial, not ideal, but soil-as-sense.
Evidence
- mendoza-canales-2026-institution-ontology-politics — Fava, Ch 3 §3–4 (pp. 76–83, lines 1262–1408). The thesis-central reading. Anchor: extraction-note Pass 2a Argument 4.
- merleau-ponty-2002-husserl-limits — Husserl at the Limits, p. 67: "But this 'structural' or concrete a priori is neither a Kantian category nor even a Hegelian idea; it is the allgemeinen Sinnesboden … = the sense finally, far from being an idea, is a ground."
- merleau-ponty-2002-husserl-limits — Husserl at the Limits, p. 68: "The possibles (even of thought) are possibles of the earth, of the Weltmöglichkeit. The possible is the openness of the Umwelt and not a system of logical Being …"
- mendoza-canales-2026-institution-ontology-politics — Fava Ch 3 (lines 1334–1336). The "literal-philosophical (not merely metaphorical)" reading of the Sinnesboden line.
Counterpressure / Limits
- The "literal not metaphor" reading is interpretive. A reader could treat MP's Sinnesboden invocation as one figure among many in MP's late ontology (alongside flesh, élément, wild being, écart) without committing to the strong literal-substitution claim.
- The thesis depends on a single MP passage (Husserl at the Limits p. 67). Fava treats it as a programmatic statement; a sympathetic reader could argue it's an isolated formulation that does not generalize.
- Single-chapter dependency within Mendoza-Canales 2026. Fava's Ch 3 is the sole anchor; no other chapter engages this thesis directly.
- Tension with claims#earth-as-barbarous-principle-identification candidate. The two Fava-derived candidate claims have overlapping evidence but distinct theses: the Earth-as-barbarous-principle reading takes the Earth as one name for the late MP barbarous principle; the a priori est sol reading takes the Sinnesboden as the structural-a priori-substitution. Both are plausible; whether they cohere or compete is itself a candidate question.
Payoff
If supportable, the claim consolidates soil-ground-sol as the locus of a thesis-central late-MP commitment: the late MP's a priori is geological-carnal-ground, replacing Kantian categorial structure. This positions MP's late ontology against both the Kantian-transcendental reception (which retains categorial structure under different names) and the Hegelian-Idealist reception (which retains Idea / Concept structure). Coordinate with claims#indirect-ontology-blondel-not-heidegger (supported, this run): the late MP's structural commitment is to a non-categorial, non-ideal ground; this is philosophically what indirect ontology operates within.
Status History
- 2026-05-05 — created as
candidate(Phase 8 ninth run) after the mendoza-canales-2026-institution-ontology-politics ingest. Statuscandidaterather thanlivebecause: (a) the literal-substitution reading depends on a single MP passage; (b) Fava's chapter is the sole secondary anchor within the volume; (c) the thesis's relation to MP's other late-ontology figures (flesh, élément, wild being, écart) is not yet articulated. Promotion toliverequires either (a) targeted raw-source check across MP's late working notes for corroborating Sinnesboden / sol-as-a priori attestations, or (b) corroborating secondary monograph that articulates the literal-substitution reading independent of Fava.