The Range of Determinate Existence - Collapse, Persistence, and Flourishing Under the Persistence Condition

The preceding derivations establish the conditions of determinate existence and the minimal architecture they induce: Frame, Module, Coupling. These are typically read as constraints on systems. This paper shows that they are not optional constraints but conditions whose violation eliminates determinacy itself. If any of the structural roles is absent, or if transformation exceeds integration capacity, systems do not become alternative kinds of entities. They lose the conditions under which anything can exist as something determinate at all. The persistence condition therefore does not describe stability among others. It specifies the boundary between determinate existence and collapse.