Russellian monism thus conflates the epistemic gap between structural descriptions and their categorical basis with a genuine ontological grounding relation that quiddities cannot discharge.

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Categorical basis(metaphysics): The underlying 'stuff' or foundation that actually exists and grounds (or makes real) other properties or abilities.
Epistemic gap(The statement argues that the lack of a polynomial-time simulation is a gap in what we know, not proof that non-determinism is actually more powerful): A gap in our knowledge or understanding—something we don't know or can't figure out yet, rather than something that's impossible.
Ontological grounding relation(the kind of relationship needed to connect description to reality): A relationship that explains what something fundamentally depends on or what makes it really exist—essentially, what grounds or supports something in reality.
Russellian monism(Philosophy of mind and metaphysics): The view that physical science reveals only the structural or relational nature of the world, while the intrinsic nature of what bears those structures is not captured by physics.
Structural descriptions(what we can describe about physical things): Descriptions that explain how something is organized or how its parts relate to each other, rather than what it fundamentally is made of.
quiddities(Term used by Russellian monists for the same category Kant discusses): Absolutely intrinsic properties, known only via the theoretical roles they are supposed to play rather than through direct substantive knowledge

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