WWB Trainer

WWB Key Ideas

Topic:

TST Four Mind Traps

SWITCH

Timeless ideas at the intersections of science, philosophy, critical thinking, and history.

MODE:

~ 4 minutes of short abstracts.

Speed: 1.00

A Living Orientation to TouchstoneTruth.

What follows is not an introduction to a single essay or topic, but an orientation to the larger project it belongs to.

Rather than publishing for immediacy, the TouchstoneTruth project releases one edition per week of the TST Weekly Column while allowing ideas to mature long before and long after publication.

This project is built around the belief that ideas deserve time to be tested, refined, and revisited. Structured to preserve continuity, the ideas remain identifiable even as understanding evolves.

The Weekly Column

At the center of the project is the TST Weekly Column. Each week, one idea is explored as a complete edition.

Ideas here are published openly and revised honestly, rather than frozen in their first form. This allows essays to remain readable and reflective, while their supporting evidence stays precise, traceable, and independently updatable.

These columns are meant to endure, to be returned to, and to change honestly.

The Research Layer

Beneath each column lives the WWB research layer made up of short, focused tidbits.

When a source is corrected or expanded, it can be updated once at the tidbit level and reflected everywhere it appears.

These tidbits do the quiet work of grounding ideas in evidence.

The WWB Trainer

Ideas are not only read here—they are revisited.

The WWB Trainer exists to help ideas surface gradually over time, reconnecting related material through repetition and variation.

Over time, this mode helps build intellectual continuity rather than isolated moments of insight.

A Philosophy of Journalism

Guided by the philosophy of journalism, it values clarity, sourcing, and restraint over speed or certainty.

Journalism serves truth best when it separates facts from interpretation and makes the relationship between the two explicit.

Claims are shown alongside their evidence. Corrections are treated as integrity rather than weakness.

The TST Framework

To support clearer reasoning, TouchstoneTruth draws on the TST Framework.

TST is designed to be compatible with science, philosophy, and everyday decision-making.

The framework is composed of 5 thought tools, 4 mind traps, and 3 truth hammers.

The Idea of Ideas

At a deeper level, this work rests on an epistemology known as the Idea of Ideas.

The Idea of Ideas resists absolutism without collapsing into relativism.

All knowledge here is treated as representational rather than final.

The Material–Spiritual Framework

Closely related is the Material–Spiritual Framework, which helps prevent category errors when thinking about reality, meaning, and human experience.

Understanding improves when material facts and spiritual interpretations are kept distinct but connected.

It allows science to remain rigorous and meaning to remain real.

A Living Touchstone

Together, these elements form what I call a Living Touchstone.

A body of work designed to evolve without losing coherence—to preserve not just conclusions, but the reasoning that led to them.

The aim is not to persuade quickly, but to think responsibly over time.

One idea at a time.
Evidence where it belongs.
Revision without erasure.

Return when useful.
Revisit when needed.

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Writing and coding by Michael Alan Prestwood.