Physics as Third-Order Chisel: A Philosophy of Nature

Description (English) This paper argues that physics is a third-order chisel in the Self-as-an-End theoretical framework. The transcendental ground of physics is the law of non-contradiction—the product of mathematics chiseling the law of identity. The law of non-contradiction establishes exclusion; exclusion's automatic consequence is extension—the structural form that makes distinction possible, not empirical space. The subject exercises negation upon the dimension of extension and constructs the spatiotemporal framework. The paper demonstrates that symmetry principles are the expression of the transcendental ground in the dimension of extension, that empirical verifiability is an intrinsic property of extension (not a methodological choice), and that physical objects are products of the free being's operation upon the law of non-contradiction. The paper closes the meta-question "why can physics not answer all physical questions?" through three independent converging results. Thermodynamics is positioned as the 3D→4D bridge: entropy increase is a statistical emergent property of the spatiotemporal framework, giving time a direction that points toward causality—the entrance to the dynamics paper.