#Vocabulary
Free Will
Free Will is the question of whether our choices are truly ours, or whether they are determined by nature, randomness, fate, or divine guidance.
Normalcy
Normalcy is your learned sense of what feels usual, acceptable, expected, or familiar. It evolves, and you can influence it.
Apathetic Agnostic
An agnostic who withholds certainty about the unknown or unknowable but does not actively explore those questions.
Explorative Agnostic
An agnostic who actively explores the unknown or unknowable while calibrating belief to evidence and reason.
Agnostic
A person who withholds certainty about the unknown or unknowable. In TST, agnostics may be explorative or apathetic.
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.
Non-Self
Non-Self is the idea that the self is not a fixed thing inside you, but a temporary pattern within the ongoing flow of reality.
Identity
Identity is one’s sense of self, shaped by inherited traits, lived experience, and choices.
Impermanence
Impermanence is the truth that reality is always changing; everything flows, shifts, transforms, emerges, and passes away.
Worldview
A worldview is one’s interpretive lens, shaped by personal language, religion, and philosophy.
Empirically True
An idea is empirically true when it accurately describes the material world and survives observation, evidence, measurement, or scientific testing.
Rationally True
An idea is rationally true when it is logically consistent within a rational framework and does not depend on irrational assumptions.
Irrationally False
An idea is irrationally false when it lacks empirical support, fails logical consistency, or depends on unverified or disproven claims.
Irrational Idea
An irrational idea is an idea not currently anchored in empirical evidence or rational proof.
Rational Idea
A rational idea is an idea that is logically coherent within a structured framework, even when it describes the material world indirectly.
Empirical Idea
An empirical idea is an idea that describes the material world directly and can be tested through observation, evidence, or scientific validation.
Framework
A framework is an organized set of ideas, assumptions, categories, methods, and vocabulary used to interpret the world.
Idea
An idea is a mental construct connecting two or more impressions. A single impression becomes an idea when the mind relates it to something else.
Material World
The material world is reality itself: the shared world that exists whether we notice it, name it, believe in it, or not.
Secular Spirituality
Science-first spiritual exploration of the self. The personal exploration of meaning, connection, mystery, and the self, anchored to reality and without supernatural claims.