The argument runs in order, and the order matters: what any total theory owes, what shape that forces an answer into, what anchors such a structure in reality, and the problem the whole approach leaves open. The first two name no candidate at all.

1 · The bar

The Shape of a Total Theory pre-print

A necessary-conditions net for any total theory, derived with no candidate in view. Coherence, anchoring, and the completeness demands that follow from requiring a theory to seat its own theorist.

Current draft · doi:10.5281/zenodo.21498462

2 · The shape

The Shape of a Total Theory's Base working draft

Categorial foreclosures and the both-aspect base they force. Whitehead as the century-old near miss, and the formal object he never built.

Working draft · doi:10.5281/zenodo.21498802

3 · The identification

One Structure, Inside and Out pre-print

Experience as the content anchor of structural realism — the Newman problem, orientation space, and the spinor double cover. The load-bearing paper for everything else on this site.

Current draft · doi:10.5281/zenodo.21498907

4 · The open problem

The Combination Problem as a Dynamics Problem early draft · unresolved

A line of attack on how coupled systems might come to share a single point of view, treating combination as a question about dynamics rather than composition. The technical development behind it is incomplete, the result it reaches for is not established, and nothing else on this site rests on it. Posted because the problem is real and the approach is worth criticism, not because it is finished.

Early working draft · no DOI

On the geometric programme

A quantitative programme is being developed on the same structure — the projective geometry the papers above arrive at, put to work. It is under reconstruction. Nothing from it is quotable yet, and nothing on this site depends on it.

Earlier versions of this site carried a reference corpus and a set of numerical results from that programme. Those have been withdrawn from the site pending the rebuild. Anything you may have read there should be treated as superseded rather than current.

All of it is pre-print and none of it is peer-reviewed. Substantive correction is what is most useful: technical critique, pointers to prior work that should be engaged, and arguments against the load-bearing steps. Get in touch.