Imre Lakatos

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

  7 / 10
• TETrust in Experience

  6 / 10
• SRSkeptical Reflex

  6 / 10
• CECommunal Embeddedness

  6 / 10

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

• Hilary GreavesFORGE

  Longtermism — present obligations to vast possible futures.

• Toby OrdFORGE

  The Precipice — humanity's long future as a moral category.

• Robert BrandomCARTOGRAPHER

  Making It Explicit — meaning as inferential commitment in social space.

• Miranda FrickerCARTOGRAPHER

  Epistemic Injustice — the wrongs done to people as knowers.

• Thomas KuhnCARTOGRAPHER

  Structure of Scientific Revolutions — paradigms shift, not data.

• Maruyama MasaoCARTOGRAPHER

  From feudal to modern — Japanese political thought's genealogy.

Short exercises in the same tradition as Imre Lakatos'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.