This paper has developed a structured philosophical framework for understanding reality, knowledge, and the self without appealing to metaphysical inflation or reductionist collapse. By clearly distinguishing physical systems, abstract structures, and models, the framework provides a coherent way to understand how scientific explanation, representation, and conceptual analysis operate together. The introduction of primitive concepts, framework-constituted concepts, defined concepts, and derived concepts allows the framework to remain explicit about its assumptions while preserving clarity and internal consistency. Within this structure, the self is understood neither as a metaphysical substance nor as a mere fiction, but as a physically existing system that can be represented in multiple, constraint-sensitive ways through axiomatic models. Knowledge is treated as abstractly existing and objective, while epistemic (representational) capacity explains how systems can access and misrepresent knowledge without reducing it to mental or physical states. Higher-level notions such as agency, free will, consciousness, and ethics are integrated as model-relative and derived concepts, preserving their explanatory and practical significance without introducing new ontological commitments. The framework does not aim to provide final answers to longstanding philosophical problems, nor to compete with empirical science. Its contribution lies instead in clarifying the relationships between reality, abstraction, modeling, and explanation, and in showing how complex philosophical concepts can be situated within a disciplined and coherent structure. By emphasizing constraint-sensitive modeling and explicit distinctions, the framework offers a way to think about ourselves and the world that is realist without being dogmatic, and deflationary without being dismissive.
Akash Pawar (Wed,) studied this question.