[DSRP Evidence](https://dsrpevidence.org/)

# DSRP as Universal Ontology

The Structural Foundation of All Systems

## Details

**Authors** Cabrera D

**Year** 2025

**Publisher** Journal of Systems Thinking

**Kind of work** article

**Reading level** intermediate

[Read it at the publisher](https://doi.org/10.54120/jost.v25i1.dc6sfas6) 
10.54120/jost.v25i1.dc6sfas6

## In authors' words

### Abstract

An argument that DSRP meets the criteria for a scientific ontology rather than a conceptual vocabulary: minimal structural primitives, universality across scales, explicit generative rules, evidence that the operators are instantiated in nature, evidence that they govern cognition, falsifiability, and generativity.

### What they found (results)

Compares DSRP against classical, analytic, phenomenological, process and systems-theoretic ontologies on those criteria. Most propose categorical content that is rarely axiomatized and almost never empirically tested; DSRP is presented as structural rather than categorical.

## Commentary

### Response

Carries the existence-versus-effect distinction the Law of Structural Reality depends on: evidence that the operators appear in matter independently of observers, separate from evidence that they govern thinking. The comparison table is an argument by criteria, not a measurement.

**Patterns it shows** D, S, R, P

## Questions it bears on

- Q2. [What is organization (O)?](https://dsrpevidence.org/question/what-organization)
- Q4. [Does this organization (O) exist in reality?](https://dsrpevidence.org/question/completeness-reality)
- Q5. [Does the same organization (O) hold across every domain and scale?](https://dsrpevidence.org/question/scale-generality)

**How to cite this** Cabrera D (2025). DSRP as Universal Ontology: The Structural Foundation of All Systems. Journal of Systems Thinking.