The Actuals: Actuality, Uniqueness, and Physical Necessity

What earns the claim that a physical relation is the morality, economics, or meaning of reality? Recognition Science locates these subjects in the same physical structure. The decisive step is to show how that structure determines the particular relation concerned. We distinguish physical identification, unique determination, and necessity across realizations. For binary questions with independently specified observations and comparisons, we derive an exact criterion: every question must be reached from an observation, and all paths to it must agree. A disagreeing account must lose a determining fact. This determination extends across realizations that faithfully preserve those facts, including the permitted histories. A calibrated comparator exhibits the derivation of an unknown reporting function. An authored undertaking shows why history and capacity matter even when present costs agree. A unique relation can permit several performances and actual violation; its necessity fixes the distinction between them.

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Published
2026-11-07
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https://doi.org/10.67347/pith.preprint.2026.000042
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Philosophy and Theoretical Science
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The Actuals: Actuality, Uniqueness, and Physical Necessity

Jonathan Washburn
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Abstract

What earns the claim that a physical relation is the morality, economics, or meaning of reality? Recognition Science locates these subjects in the same physical structure. The decisive step is to show how that structure determines the particular relation concerned. We distinguish physical identification, unique determination, and necessity across realizations. For binary questions with independently specified observations and comparisons, we derive an exact criterion: every question must be reached from an observation, and all paths to it must agree. A disagreeing account must lose a determining fact. This determination extends across realizations that faithfully preserve those facts, including the permitted histories. A calibrated comparator exhibits the derivation of an unknown reporting function. An authored undertaking shows why history and capacity matter even when present costs agree. A unique relation can permit several performances and actual violation; its necessity fixes the distinction between them.

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