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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
Historical tales are empirical ideas. We believe these evidence-based reconstructions of real past events with varying degrees of confidence. We can prove or disprove their ...
TST Epistemic Calibration: Credence and Degrees of Belief
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 Epistemic Justification: Rational Belief and Common Knowledge
TST Theory of Justification asks: How do we responsibly classify an idea and hold it? A belief is justified by assigning a truth category and ...
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 ...
Idea Evaluation: The Scholarly Review Process
Idea Evaluation, or reflective inquiery, is one of the five thought tools. It equips you with the means to rigorously examine thoughts and ideas. Question. ...
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 Reasoning: Deductive, Inductive, and Abductive
Deduction applies rules, induction spots patterns, and abduction chooses the most likely explanation.
The Idea of Ideas
Think well by asking what kind of claim you are hearing before deciding whether it is true. Empirical, rational, speculative, and disproven ideas require different ...
5 Thought Tools: Viewpoint, Ideas, Reasoning, Constructs, and Reflection
Thought Tools are the core skills that turn raw information into understanding and wisdom.
4 Mind Traps: Fallacies, Biases, Heuristics, and Stereotypes
The Four Mind Traps are predictable thinking errors that distort judgment before reasoning even begins.