SCOPE: The Structural Constitution of Physical Explanation

This work introduces SCOPE (Structural Constitution of Physical Explanation), afoundational reconstruction of physics formulated at the level of admissibility rather thanontology. SCOPE specifies the necessary and sufficient conditions under which a statementmay count as physically meaningful, when such a statement exists, and when the correctscientific output is undefined.The framework forbids primitives, enforces quotient primacy, commissions universals onlythrough scan-correct tribunal protocols, and derives matter, time, geometry, and gravityas regime-dependent effective constructions. Universality is defined jurisdictionally ratherthan expansively: all physically admissible descriptions fall within the scope of the sameconstitution, while many conceivable descriptions are excluded as non-physical.SCOPE is not a model of the universe. It is a constitution for what it means to do physicsat all.