SUSUMU GOTO'S SCALE GAUGE THEORY UNDER ONTOLOGICAL DISCIPLINE: A critical–propositional reading in confrontation with the Theory of Objectivity, its foundational bibliography, its recent production, and the supporting literature

This work presents an expanded critical–propositional reading of Susumu Goto’s Formulation of Scale-Gauge Theory and Its Cosmological Consequences, Part I: Foundational Framework in light of the Theory of Objectivity (TO) developed by Vidamor Cabannas and Denivaldo Silva. The article examines the foundational structure of Scale Gauge Theory (SGT)—including local scale invariance, the dilaton field, condensation density, the discrete hierarchy of levels, and the Scale-Centroid Theorem—through the modal-ontological discipline of TO and its seven axioms. The central aim is to determine to what extent Goto’s framework can be regarded as compatible, partially compatible, or under tension with the logical and ontological requirements that, according to TO, govern the possibility of any coherent universe. In this context, the study argues that SGT provides a mathematically and physically significant account of hierarchical scale organization and dynamic stabilization, especially regarding the relation between the Planck scale, the electroweak scale, and the cosmological constant scale. However, it also contends that SGT does not, by itself, constitute an ultimate ontological foundation. The article therefore proposes a disciplined reinterpretation of SGT as a derived phenomenic framework rather than a primary cosmological origin theory. Within this reading, the dilaton is reconsidered as a phenomenic mediator of scale manifestation, condensation is interpreted as a form of structural memory, and the scale centroid is reread as a convergence zone. Special attention is given to the seventh axiom of TO, according to which no existential universe is possible without a substance transcendent to its quantum; in the present analysis, this transcendent element is interpreted as the knowledge or information generated in atomic relations and equivalent to atomic radiations. By articulating Goto’s model with the foundational bibliography of TO, its recent modal and testability-oriented developments, and a broader dialogical literature in physics and philosophy, this study seeks to show that SGT can be fruitfully absorbed into the conceptual horizon of TO as a secondary formal language for describing the hierarchical manifestation of scales in a modally disciplined universe. In this sense, the article does not reject SGT; rather, it repositions it within a broader ontological framework, preserving its scientific value while clarifying its metaphysical limits. Keywords: Theory of Objectivity; Scale Gauge Theory; Susumu Goto; modal ontology; scale invariance; cosmology; hierarchy problem; cosmological constant; dilaton field; convergence zones; phenomenic framework; atomic radiation; Zenodo dialogue