Berkeley

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
• TDTheoretical Drive

  9 / 10
• TETrust in Experience

  7 / 10
• UIUniversalist Impulse

  7 / 10

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

• HusserlCARTOGRAPHER

  Bracket your assumptions and return to the things themselves. Phenomenology as rigorous science.

• Nicholas of CusaLIGHTHOUSE

  Learned ignorance. The coincidence of opposites. The infinite contains all finite.

• Ibn Sina (Avicenna)CARTOGRAPHER

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

• William of OckhamCARTOGRAPHER

  Multiply not entities beyond necessity. Universals are linguistic conveniences, not realities.

• Nishida KitarōLIGHTHOUSE

  Pure experience precedes the subject-object distinction. Place of nothingness as ground of being.

• Paul RicoeurCARTOGRAPHER

  The narrative self. The hermeneutics of suspicion. Oneself as another.

Concepts where Berkeley sits in the conversation. Each links to a primer.

• Empiricism vs rationalism
  Does knowledge come from experience or from reason? The 350-year argument.
• Solipsism
  How do you know other minds exist? The challenge that's philosophically harder than it looks.

Side-by-side with other philosophers, dimension by dimension.

• Berkeley VS Locke

Short exercises in the same tradition as Berkeley'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.