Process Ontology and Epistemological Limits: Why Scale-Dependent Reality Prohibits Complete Prediction

This paper establishes the necessary connection between process ontology and the Axiom of Scale-Dependent Viability (ASDV), demonstrating that epistemological limits on prediction are not contingent features of knowledge acquisition but necessary consequences of reality's processual structure. I show that ASDV—the principle that all solutions exist within scale-bounded viability domains whose boundaries cannot be specified exactly ex-ante—follows necessarily from process ontology's core commitments: process primacy, scale relativity, aspectual realization, and type pluralism. Substance ontology, by contrast, predicts the opposite: that essential properties should enable complete specification of behavior across all scales. The paper resolves apparent tensions between the frameworks, demonstrates their mutual reinforcement, and establishes that major limit theorems (Gödel's incompleteness, Heisenberg's uncertainty, computational complexity bounds) are simultaneously manifestations of both processual ontology and scale-dependent epistemology. This synthesis provides unified foundation for understanding why reality is knowable within bounded domains but resists complete predictive specification across scale transitions.