Structural Preconditions of Physical Description: A Logical–Structural Analysis of the Conditions of Applicability of Physics

Physics explains everything—except itself. It presupposes time, law, and order without reflecting on the conditions that make such description possible. This paper reconstructs the structural emergence path: a sequence of seven logically ordered structural levels—existence, difference, relation, reproducibility, invariance, lawfulness, and time-like ordering—without which systematic description of change would be impossible. The analysis operates pre-empirically, identifying necessary (not sufficient) conditions through radical minimalism and validating them via negative analysis and convergence testing. The emergence path proves to be a structural attractor, robust against variation in starting points. The contribution lies in explicating the implicit presuppositions of physics as a form of knowledge. The analysis makes no ontological claims and does not propose new physical theory, but offers a philosophical reconstruction of physics’ conditions of possibility.