Dugald Stewart

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

• SRSkeptical Reflex

  8 / 10
• TETrust in Experience

  7 / 10
• POPractical Orientation

  7 / 10
• ESEmbodied Sensibility

  7 / 10

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

• Bernard MandevilleTOUCHSTONE

  Fable of the Bees — private vices, public benefits.

• Bas van FraassenTOUCHSTONE

  Constructive empiricism — accept what is observable, suspend on the rest.

• MontaigneTOUCHSTONE

  Essays — Que sais-je? Skepticism turned into self-portrait.

• Annette BaierTOUCHSTONE

  Trust as the precondition of moral life; Hume re-read for the feminine.

• Thomas ReidGARDEN

  Common sense — the principles every philosophy must already presume.

• Maine de BiranGARDEN

  Effort and willing as the felt origin of the self.

Short exercises in the same tradition as Dugald Stewart's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• Fallacy hunt →

  Pick a real argument from the wild and find three reasoning errors in it.

• Counterexample drill →

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

• Steelmanning the opposite →

  Write the strongest possible version of the view you most reject.