#Vocabulary
Potential
Potential refers to what a thing can become or do within reality’s constraints.
Actual
Actual refers to the realized state of a thing, including its current properties, form, condition, and category.
Essence
Essence refers to what a thing is, or is claimed to be, at its core.
Existence
Existence refers to whether or not a thing exists.
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.
Eudaimonia
Eudaimonia is the happiness or well-being that comes from a flourishing life of virtue.
Idea Evaluation
Idea Evaluation is the practice of improving ideas.
Schema
A schema is the mind’s idea of a repeatable pattern.
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 ...
Pragmatism
The view that ideas have value primarily by their practical, real-world results. Beliefs primarily matter by the difference they make in life.
Concrete Object
A concrete object is a material thing that exists in reality.
Abstract Entity
An abstract entity is a mental construct representing something non-material.
Free Will
Free Will is the degree of real choice a person has.
Normalcy
Normalcy is your learned sense of what feels expected.
Apathetic Agnostic
An Apathetic Agnostic position on a speculative claim does not pretend certainty and is not interested in active exploration.
Explorative Agnostic
An Explorative Agnostic position on a speculative claim does not pretend certainty but is interested in active exploration.
Agnostic
An agnostic position on a speculative claim does not pretend certainty.
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.