The Ketobashi Principle: A Methodological Approach to Problem-Solving

This paper introduces the Ketobashi Principle as a methodological frame- work for solving complex problems across disciplines. “Ketobashi” (, literally “to kick away”) represents an intellectual stance that radically eliminates unneces- sary structures and redundant steps, rather than managing or refining them. In medicine, this corresponds to bypassing immunological rejection itself; in chem- istry, to eliminating unstable intermediates in catalysis; and in physics, to reject- ing redundant higher-dimensional structures. Despite the diversity of these fields, such problems share a common form: whether to embrace complexity or to kick away redundancy. The Ketobashi Principle abstracts this form as a generalizable methodology, offering a transdisciplinary paradigm of problem-solving.