Anselm of Canterbury

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• TRTrust in Reason

  9 / 10
• RTReverence for Tradition

  8 / 10
• TDTheoretical Drive

  8 / 10
• UIUniversalist Impulse

  7 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• Bernard LonerganCARTOGRAPHER

  Insight — the structure of intentional consciousness as cognitive method.

• Duns ScotusCARTOGRAPHER

  Univocity of being; haecceitas — the "thisness" that individuates.

• Albertus MagnusCARTOGRAPHER

  Aristotle baptized — natural philosophy as a path to divine wisdom.

• Ibn Sina (Avicenna)CARTOGRAPHER

  Necessary Existent argument for God. The 'floating man' shows soul as substance distinct from body.

• Ramon LlullCARTOGRAPHER

  Ars Magna — combinatorial logic to convert through reason alone.

• Hugh of Saint VictorKEEL

  Three eyes — flesh, reason, and contemplation each seeing differently.

Short exercises in the same tradition as Anselm of Canterbury's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• Argument mapping →

  Draw the structure of an argument as boxes and arrows. See its load-bearing walls.

• Reductio ad absurdum →

  Take a claim seriously, run it to its logical limit, see if you still believe it.

• Counterexample drill →

  Try to break a moral rule with a single concrete case.