What Prephysics is — and is not
It is a methodological layer prior to theory application: neither a new physical theory nor an anti-physical critique.
Prephysics Research Programme
Prephysics
Applicability before interpretation.
Diagnostic focus
Prephysics investigates the conditions that must be met before a physical description is legitimately applied.
Formal admissibility is not physical applicability
Mathematical consistency and predictive fit do not by themselves establish that the target, interface and domain of application are adequately licensed.
Verdicts: PASS / OPEN / LoA
The protocol records whether the required conditions are satisfied, unresolved, or outside the domain in which the claim is licensed.
Research basis
From the Emergence Path to the verdict protocol
1
Structural Preconditions of Physical Description
Seven structural preconditions for physical description and the foundation of the programme.
2
Levels of Description and Conditions of Applicability
The L1/L2/L3 architecture: applicability conditions, theoretical content and empirical application.
3
When Physical Applicability Fails
A diagnostic protocol for probabilistic claims.