… “… can it be understood and expressed like a physics model though it’s immaterial?” - Bill’s question above.
Yes, it can, C.S. Peirce’s attempt at what you ask is to be found in his Logic of Relations. One idea that is crucial … A complete Ontology has two kinds or types of objects (very roughly speaking). There are Existent Reals (material objects with physical qualities) and Non-Existent Reals (objects that can have any and or all of the qualities of ERs with one exception - material existence).
… see Pdf gratis https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326712100_To_Take_the_Writer’s_Meaning_An_Unpublished_Manuscript_on_Peirce_and_Modern_Semiotic_by_Walker_Percy
