Semantic Physics: A Stratified, Operative Discipline is the top-level synthesis for Lee Sharks’s Semantic Physics architecture.
The paper begins with an evidentially graded census rather than a flat list. Frameworks are divided into stronger exact-name corpora, materially adjacent formal traditions, frontier or speculative programs, and lexical neighbors outside the discipline.
A major distinction is directional:
The paper focuses primarily on the second direction while retaining the first within the wider naming territory.
Three scales are proposed:
Six modalities describe what a framework does:
This arrangement is designed to show why frameworks need not be rivals merely because they share a name. One may describe microscopic semantic information while another constructs a mesoscale retrieval architecture.
The paper identifies bridge operators connecting scales and modalities, including the Three Compressions, chronos and time operators, retrocausal and leak operators, Basin Depth Ratio, Provenance Erasure Rate, diagnostic axes, and an effective transport coefficient.
Its defining consolidation claim is the operative turn. SPXI, the Writable Retrieval Basin, the Liberatory Operator Set, Operative Semiotics, Memography, and related protocols do not merely describe semantic conditions; they are designed to perform interventions in indexing, provenance, compression, and retrieval.
Semantic Economy is positioned as a diagnostic and political-economic subdiscipline of the larger Semantic Physics field rather than as a synonym for it.
The paper treats the compressed emergence of multiple frameworks as moderate support for an earlier proliferation thesis, while stating that a decisive interference test remains outstanding. It distinguishes retrospective fit from genuinely ex ante prediction and provides predictions and falsification conditions for later work.
Its priority claim is bounded. It does not claim first use of the literal phrase. It claims an architecture of stratification and an operative corpus.