This paper formalizes how ontological standards must be applied continuously, uniformly, and without exemption across scientific domains. It introduces governance and enforcement criteria that distinguish between incomplete theories, internally contradictory theories, and mechanically closed explanations. The work demonstrates how existing scientific frameworks—despite sharing the same observational record—diverge in their conclusions due to selective rule application, anomaly deferral, abstraction elevation, and definitional retreat. It distinguishes unresolved anomalies from internal contradictions and establishes clear adjudication rules for theory classification. The paper does not attempt to replace existing theories or propose a new physical model. Instead, it closes the evaluative phase of the project by presenting a comparative closure and anomaly burden framework that objectively measures how far current models fall from full ontological sufficiency. This work serves as the transition point between critique and construction, explicitly defining when and why synthesis must occur. 1:An Ontological Foundation for Scientific Discovery: A Path to Epistemic Neuroplasticity and Mechanical Closure 2: What Modern Science Stopped Explaining Subtitle A Statistical Inversion of Reality 3:A Balanced Ontological Governance of Scientific Theory: A Path to Unification Through Epistemic Re-Standardization and Mechanical Closure 4:Constructive Ontology and Unified Mechanics: Explicit Derivation of a Mechanically Closed Physical Framework
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