We begin this treatise with an investigation of a flat ontology. or the possible ontology of a flat world, where things are devoid of any kind of intensity. The world explored in Book 1 is the world in which any thing, sensu structo, is equivalent to another thing. Relativists will not breathe easy in this world. This books central claim is that no classical determination [...] is contained in our concept of the most unrestricted, emptiest thing ((Garcia (2014))) #philosophy