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  "abstract": "We argue that the existence of robust, reproducible physical properties — the minimal condition for empirically grounded physics — requires a nonlinear generative dynamics. The argument proceeds in three steps. First, the objectivity postulates (established in [33]) demand that properties form *robustness classes*: equivalence classes of configurations yielding the same macroscopic outcome (Definition 1, MRL). Second, the dispersive instability theorem (RAGE) entails that no linear evolution on unbounded domains can sustain such classes; decoherence presupposes the robust structures it purports to explain. The only resolution is active nonlinear stabilization (Definition 2, SSR). Third, a self-trapped excitation acquires a discrete vibrational spectrum, so quantization emerges as a *consequence* of stabilization (Corollary 1, EDC). Applying the SSR as a filter within a *Dynamical Ledger* — five independently motivated constraints — and invoking the Derrick–Hobart virial identity and the Gisin–Polchinski no-signaling bound, we eliminate all candidate field theories but three (Theorem 2): nonlinear Dirac (Soler), chiral sigma (Skyrme), and their self-consistent coupling (CQSM). Six competing interpretive frameworks are likewise eliminated (Propositions 4–9). We conclude that $\\psi$ is injective ($\\psi$-ontic), non-surjective (incomplete), and operationally epistemic within the Harrigan–Spekkens framework.",
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  "title": "From Robustness to Stabilization: Why the Physical World Requires Nonlinear Dynamics",
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