Abstract

The Anti-Ontology Hypothesis (AOH) challenges traditional ontological frameworks by arguing that some entities—termed anti-entities—do not exist in an intrinsic or independent manner but emerge from structural voids in reality. Rather than possessing positive ontological status, these entities function as placeholders, paradoxes, or conceptual scaffolding, borrowing their existence from gaps within reality’s structure. Drawing from historical metaphysical traditions, AOH critiques the classical assumption that existence is a property, using examples such as mathematical zero, fictional characters, and quantum superpositions to demonstrate how certain entities exist only as artifacts of incompleteness.