When worldviews collide, the impasse is structural—not a matter of stupidity or bad faith, but of incommensurable axiom stacks with no shared measurement standard. This chapter provides two practical tools: the Bridge-Building Protocol for dialogue across stack boundaries, and the Worldview Comparison Method—five criteria for evaluating competing worldviews rigorously, honestly, and without pretending to neutral ground. Ends with an invitation for the reader to run the method

Every person operates from an axiom stack—a layered architecture of bedrock presuppositions, inquiry algorithms, and worldview outputs. This chapter makes that invisible structure visible, lays out three major examples (Scientific-Existentialist, Scriptural-Theist, and Dharmic/Taoist), and introduces the concepts of entailment costs, incommensurability, and sovereign choice. The foundation for understanding why intelligent people looking at the same world can reach radically