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TST PRACTICE

By Philosopher Michael Alan Prestwood

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TST Normative Ethics: Flourishing as a Philosophical Goal

Ethics is fundamentally relational: human flourishing is not merely individual achievement, but a shared moral condition grounded in the recognition of other persons as agents.

TST Philosophy of Ethics: The Ethical Roadmap

The TST Ethical Roadmap is a five-step process for making responsible choices, acting with good intent, testing results against reality, and adjusting when needed.

TST Philosophy of Fiction: Imaginative Realism

Fiction is not created from nothing; it is the recombination of real impressions into imagined things.

The Material-Spiritual Framework: A Philosophy of Spirituality

The Material-Spiritual Framework separates shared empirical reality from personal spiritual meaning, allowing people to respect belief while still testing public claims against the material world.

TST Doxastic Formation: Public Belief, Tribe, and Worldview

This is your life. Embrace the beliefs you understand and believe in, not just the beliefs you inherited.

Rational Ideas: The Subtypes

When you encounter a rational idea, first ask whether it is single-layered or multi-layered. Is it one step, or more than one step, away from ...

Irrational Ideas: The Subtypes

When you encounter an irrational idea, first ask whether it is speculative or disproven.

TST Philosophy of History

History is the empirical past. Historical writing is rational narrative that aligns with reality.

Archived Epistemic Calibration

TST Calibration Theory asks: How strong should our confidence be? Answer: Confidence is the quality of alignment to reality.

TST Theory of Truth: Reality-First Correspondence

What makes an idea true? Truth is successful alignment between our representations and a determinate, mind-independent reality.

TST Metaphysics: The Split

The split separates our ideas and the material world. To live in harmony with nature, embrace the idea that our rational ideas must be internally ...

TST Theory of Belief: Justification, Credence, and Calibration

To responsibly classify an idea and hold it, start by assigning it a truth category and then calibrate.

TST Moral Calibration: Legal, Moral, and Fair

Law gives order, morality gives conscience, and fairness gives balance. None is enough alone. A legal action can still be wrong. A good decision asks ...

Compare: TST and Its Neighbors

TST Philosophy does not appear from nowhere. It grows from ancient and modern neighbors, then reorganizes, clarifies, and extends them into a science-first framework aimed ...

TST Philosophy: A 5-Step Structure

Flourishing requires disciplined alignment between our evolving models and the material world they seek to describe.

Idea Theory Framework

The Idea Theory Framework within the Idea of Ideas is a promotion ladder for ideas to move from speculation to hypothesis, theory, and law.

Holistic Paleolithic Framework: A New Look at Prehistory

A new look at dividing up the paleolithic era switches from lower, middle, and upper to Stone, Fire, Cultural, Symbolic, Cognitive, and prehistory ending specifically ...
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Idea Evaluation: The Scholarly Review Process

Idea Evaluation is one of the five thought tools. It equips you with the means to rigorously examine thoughts and ideas.

Mindscape Framework

The Mindscape Framework presents a layered philosophy of the mind: consciousness is the structured experience of reality, heuristics are its evolved shortcuts, and worldview and ...

Types of Inference: Deductive, Inductive, and Abductive

Deduction applies rules, induction spots patterns, and abduction chooses the most likely explanation.
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