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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.

A Higher Power for Everyone: God, Logos, and Recovery

Recovery begins when the addicted self stops acting like the highest authority. Surrender craving and rebuild with a Higher Power: whether God, Logos, or reality ...

Historical lineup for Secular Spirituality

The best spirituality does not escape reality. It learns from it. Let reality sharpen and deepen your spirituality.

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.
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Education: On Testing in Schools

Anonymous practice tests help teachers spot knowledge gaps and teach more effectively.

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.

No Kings Has Deep Historical Roots

Recent protests reflect the timeless struggle to limit power and oppression using checks and balances.

The Double‐slit Experiment Explored

Reality may not be particles afterall. It may be more like waves, vibrations, or strings.

Philosophy: The Existence and Essence Debate

In religion and philosophy, the existence and essence debate asks if you exist before your time on Earth.

Pragmatism and Pythagoras

Pythagoras exemplifies rational pragmatism and reminds us that authority is often topic specific. Choose your authorities carefully, because good authority is usually limited to a ...
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