Abstract
How could science be different? Could genuinely new ideas come from a non-STEM discipline? Is this a way in which science might become different? This essay offers a deductive description of the physical universe from the vantage of ontology—a venture that begins with axioms educed from the philosophical canon, that delineates a self-consistent conceptual framework to depict the system, and that ends in a proposition on the origin of life. Along the way, fresh perspectives on persistent, unsolved matters are suggested, hinting at a very different future course for science.
Valerie Burks