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2026
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18665621 |
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- <p>This paper presents the tree-top meta-method: a method of inquiry that proceeds<br>by ascending from any concrete domain through successive levels of formal generalisation<br>until further generalisation becomes impossible, then returning with<br>a structural map of the entire landscape of necessity. One begins with a concrete<br>problem or established result and generalises upward, asking at each level what<br>more general constraint underlies it, continuing until formal generalisation itself<br>runs out. From this limit, one observes which structural features must be present<br>for any observable system to exist and how they relate across domains. The result is<br>not a solution to the original problem but a map by which specialists in any domain<br>can locate their phenomena within a larger landscape.<br>The method differs from standard scientific practice (which ascends only far<br>enough to solve immediate problems) and from speculative philosophy (which<br>inhabits the limit without returning). The paper situates the method within existing<br>traditions—category theory, systems theory, transcendental argument, and<br>structural realism—and clarifies its distinctive contribution. Applied systematically<br>over 27 years, the method has produced 75 publications spanning physics, astrophysics,<br>cognitive science, social systems, epistemology, healthcare, and artificial<br>intelligence. Four core derivations are presented with full formal apparatus, crossdomain<br>structural correspondences are derived from explicit chains of necessity,<br>and concrete falsifiable predictions are specified.<br>Keywords: meta-method, formal generalisation, structural necessity, persistence,<br>viability, cross-domain isomorphism, systems theory, structural realism, interdisciplinarity<br>1</p>