Robert Boyle

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

• TETrust in Experience

  8 / 10
• TRTrust in Reason

  7 / 10
• VAVital Affirmation

  6 / 10
• RTReverence for Tradition

  6 / 10

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

• Edward O. WilsonCARTOGRAPHER

  Consilience — unity of knowledge across the natural sciences.

• Thomas ReidGARDEN

  Common sense — the principles every philosophy must already presume.

• LeucippusCARTOGRAPHER

  First atomist — reality is void plus indivisible atoms in motion.

• John McDowellCARTOGRAPHER

  Mind and World — second nature, the space of reasons reaching all the way.

• AnaximenesPILGRIM

  Air is the underlying substance, condensing and rarefying into all phenomena.

• Jeff McMahanCARTOGRAPHER

  Ethics of Killing — moral status across the boundary cases of life.

Short exercises in the same tradition as Robert Boyle'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.