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Which philosophy quadrant are you in?
Essentialist (R/S) 20%  20%  [ 1 ]
Rationalist (R/M) 60%  60%  [ 3 ]
Existentialist (E/S) 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Empiricist (E/M) 20%  20%  [ 1 ]
Total votes : 5

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03 May 2008, 7:44 pm

http://users.california.com/~eameece/questionnaire

This is from the website of a philosopher who frequents a history message board I post at. I definitely don't agree with his New Age philosophical positions, but the questionnaire he made is pretty good.

You'll have to add up the answers yourself, but it's well worth it IMO.

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If you are R and S, you are essentialist: universal ideas and archetypes are primary reality
If you are R and M, you are rationalist: the universe operates according to causal, logical laws
If you are E and S, you are existentialist: spontaneous flux of inner being is the primary reality
If you are E and M, you are empiricist: the test of experience determines truth


My answers were:
32 Rationalism
44 Materialism

Putting me deep in the lower-left (Rationalist) quadrant.


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03 May 2008, 8:16 pm

I didn't do it entirely, just skimming through and looking at the criteria for different sections. I'd consider myself Rationalist/Materialist. The bottom left 3x3 matrix looks full of interesting and pure fields. For clarification, I'm an INTP.



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03 May 2008, 9:35 pm

35 R 3 S

Essentialist.



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04 May 2008, 12:47 am

According to that test I'm an Existentialist/Materialist.

While I have a passion for science and mathematics, I see logic and reason as descriptive rather than prescriptive tools. I don’t subscribe to the idea that reason always predicates how we should act. A lot of prescriptive rationalists come across as pretentious, pseudo-logical, authoritarians to me. I’m with Hume.