Friction as Directedness in the Ontology of Dynamics

The paper proposes a rethinking of friction outside the force and energy paradigm. Friction is interpreted as a manifestation of directedness of dynamics— a structural asymmetry of the set of admissible transitions of a system. On this basis, an axiomatic description of dissipative and antidissipative regimes is introduced, including antifriction as a structurally admissible regime rather than a paradox. It is shown that the classical laws of friction arise as an effective description of frictional regimes of directedness and do not have fundamental status. Directedness is formulated as a universal physical primitive applicable to dissipative, active, and gravitational processes.