Collapsing the relata (Dao and ziran) to escape the regress commits the defender to radical monism, which undermines the hierarchical cosmology the passage in Daodejing 25 is meant to articulate.
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(Classical Chinese philosophy / Daoist text interpretation)
A way or path that may be correct or constant; the subject of the opening of the Laozi text, where its expressibility or conveyability in language is in question
radical monism(Spinoza's metaphysics as characterized by critics such as Anne Conway)
The doctrine that there is only one substance, such that God and creation are not distinct entities.
ziran(Used to characterize the Dao's mode of being and self-grounding nature)
Self-so or spontaneous; making it up oneself on the fly rather than following or depending on something external