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Good Intent

To act with good intent, you clarify group guidance. Weigh results. Apply personal morality. Forge a plan.

True Skeptic

The True Skeptic is an OVM viewpoint of strong doubt and a high threshold for belief.

Empiricist

The Empiricist is an OVM viewpoint of evidence-calibrated inquiry.
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True Believer

The True Believer is an OVM viewpoint of strong commitment to a claim or topic.

Viewpoint Prevention

Viewpoint Prevention is the avoidance of a rigid mindset.

OVM Linguistic Bridge

The OVM Linguistic Bridge facilitates cross belief understanding.

Open Viewpoint Method

The Open Viewpoint Method is a thinking tool for exploring ideas from more than one viewpoint.

Holistic Eudaimonia

Holistic Eudaimonia is an all-encompassing approach to well-being that cultivates flourishing for all through actions that produce good results and ripple into the unknown void.

Idea Evaluation

Idea Evaluation is the practice of improving ideas.

Unknowable Dao

The Unknowable Dao is a TST term that stems from the Dao of Daoism. It points to a mysterious universal reality that transcends language and ...

Apathetic Agnostic

An Apathetic Agnostic position on an irrational topic does not pretend certainty and is not interested in active exploration.

Explorative Agnostic

An Explorative Agnostic position on an irrational topic does not pretend certainty but is interested in active exploration.

Irrational Pragmatist

An irrational-pragmatic worldview prioritizes usefulness as sufficient reason to hold ideas as true.

Rational Pragmatist

A rational-pragmatic worldview prioritizes empirical and rational truth while retaining a limited set of personal beliefs.

Empirical Pragmatist

An empirical-pragmatic worldview prioritizes empirical truth, and it treats practical usefulness as subordinate to observable reality.

Agnostic Spirituality

The personal, science-first exploration of meaning, connection, mystery, and the self, anchored to reality and sorted into empirical, rational, and irrational categories.

Empirically True

An idea is empirically true when it is scientifically true.

Empirical Idea

An empirical idea is a direct description of the material world.

Idea

An Idea is a mental construct that stems from impressions, describing concrete objects or abstract entities of the material world or beyond.
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