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Is history a Truth Hammer?
History is a disciplined extension of the journalism truth hammer. Using historical traces like a reporter, historians create stories of the past like a journalist.
What does quantum tunneling imply about metaphysics?
Tunneling shows that quantum systems do not behave classically,along smooth, continuous paths. It's real, the math works, but the metaphysics remains unsettled.
Do the empirical and rational categories apply to vocabulary words?
Words are empirical when they directly describe the material world, and rational when they help structure, organize, relate, or evaluate ideas.
Is 30 Philosophers a philosophical apologia?
30 Philosophers is TST’s historical-philosophical defense in story form: a journey through human thought showing why TST needs realism, evidence, reason, and calibrated belief.
How do you prevent yourself from overreacting?
During conflict, shift from justifying your intent to asking what result you actually want.
What is the history of ethical war?
The history of war ethics shows that across time and cultures, people have tried to define when war is justified and how it should be ...
Why do we overreact and escalate?
When emotion rises, pause long enough to ask whether your response fits the situation and helps make things better.
Will AI change writing prose?
The age of AI is already impacting how we write. Prose is shifting back toward something more human: your lived experience. Let AI handle grammar. ...
Is there an answer to the “Hard Problem of Consciousness”?
Consciousness may not be a mystical add-on to nature. It may be what happens when evolutionary feedback loops become emotional, predictive, and self-modeling.
Do brain chemicals relate to the “Hard Problem of Consciousness”?
Some inner struggles are shaped by biology, not just willpower.
Did Puritanism shape the American right?
The Founding Fathers inherited a morally charged colonial world, but their political genius was in trying to build a framework wide enough to hold deep ...
Should Democrats support the coal industry?
Embracing pragmatism, reframing coal as a temporary civilizational insurance policy turns it from a climate liability into an emergency asset.
How does TST handle language and definitions?
The words you encounter each day help you understand truth, but they never become the world itself. Treat language and definitions as useful tools, not ...
What is the difference between public truth and public belief?
Do not confuse what is widely repeated with what is well tested. Public belief deserves attention, but public truth deserves your higher confidence.
How does the idea of Identity in Christ fit within TST?
TST respects religious self/non-self teachings, but treats them as personal meaning frameworks rather than as rational truths.
Why is it so difficult to get someone else to understand what seems so obvious to you?
After sharing new information, if someone is still not convinced, let it rest. Belief is often tied to identity and worldview. To their way. Respect ...
Did Berger and Luckmann really say reality is just made up?
You inherit your culture, understand it, but you are not bound to it. You get to choose to live within it, or choose beyond it.
Do my people and culture help or harm my critical thinking?
Your people and culture give you a big leg up, a great starting place, but it is not a final place to stand still.
Is Trump simply wrong when he says no one knows what a magnet is?
In certain materials like iron, nickel, and cobalt, magnetic domains line up to form a magnet.
Is Trump simply wrong when he says water destroys magnets?
Water doesn’t weaken a permanent magnet, but time eventually does.