A structuralist ontology (Ladyman, French) permits inertial standards to be grounded in relational structure alone, without committing to a field as a primitive object in the ontology.
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Something you accept as a basic building block of reality that doesn't need to be explained by or reduced to anything simpler.
Structuralist ontology(as used in metaphysics)
A philosophical view that says what matters most about reality isn't the individual objects themselves, but rather the relationships and patterns between them.
relational structure(metaphysics)
A system of connections and relationships between different things, rather than things existing completely independently.