Examples
The ontology becomes clear through ordinary closures: kitchens, rain, apples, pain, psychosis, dreams, instruments, language, and society.
Method
Ask: real as what, under what constraints, and coherent across which closures?
A cup, table, sunlight, refrigerator hum, and tightness in the chest do not arrive as an external kitchen plus an internal experience. They resolve as a human-kitchen closure: body, light, cup, hum, posture, memory, air, mood, and relation appearing as one determinate actuality.
Rain strikes the window; glass vibrates; air moves; the room carries the impact; ear and nervous system participate. The sound is not a private echo inside the skull. It is storm-glass-air-room-body relation appearing as audible rain.
Red is not simply inside the apple, and it is not merely inside the mind. Red appears as surface, light, eye, nervous system, environment, and visual capacity close together as apparent actuality.
Pain is actual as pain before cause is known. Medical tests investigate constraints and causes; they do not grant reality to the pain after the fact. Care begins with the actuality already appearing.
A threatening voice may be actual as heard terror while not being actual as an external speaker. The ethical response honors terror, preserves safety, and refuses destructive misclassification.
A dream city is not actual as waking shared geography. It is actual as dream closure: imagery, affect, body-state, memory residue, sleep-state constraint, and symbolic movement.
A particle detector, telescope, microscope, or lab does not escape appearance. It establishes disciplined constraints under which actuality appears as tracks, numbers, images, measurements, and formal relations.
A diagnosis, vow, law, insult, poem, or theory can reorganize closure. Language is not mere labeling. It constrains what can appear, what can be recognized, and what can be done.
Law, money, debt, borders, status, credentialing, media, and institutions are constraint regimes. Social reality is not merely constructed; it is institutionally constrained actuality.