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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
- both attributed to Bertrand Russell, the second is probably a paraphrase.
Suppose you had to choose between believing that "the truth" was contained in
Which would you prefer?[possible selective use of sources]
2006 MAR |
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2007 FEB-03 |
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Cultural Creative | 63 | 75 | 75 | 63 | 63 | 81 | 75 | 71 |
Existentialist | 63 | 63 | 69 | 69 | 63 | 69 | 81 | 68 |
Materialist | 56 | 63 | 63 | 56 | 63 | 81 | 81 | 66 |
Postmodernist | 56 | 50 | 63 | 63 | 69 | 63 | 63 | 61 |
Modernist | 44 | 50 | 44 | 50 | 56 | 50 | 81 | 54 |
Fundamentalist | 25 | 50 | 38 | 38 | 31 | 44 | 25 | 36 |
Romanticist | 38 | 44 | 38 | 44 | 25 | 25 | 19 | 33 |
Idealist | 25 | 25 | 38 | 38 | 19 | 38 | 0 | 26 |
I don't self-identify with much, and I would NOT describe myself as an Existentialist, nor as a Cultural Creative. I would have expected higher ranking for Idealist. One thing the test seems to have right most of the time is my low scores for Fundamentalist. I think Materialist means you think that the atomic theory & other theories in physics are pretty good explanations for the way things are – not that you are materialistic.
If I had to name some philosophy important to my way of thinking about things I'd need to mention the Socratic Method, Cartesian Method, Kantian antinomies, Wittgenstenian Language Games, and Contractual Theory as updated by John Searle. Surprisingly I find I need to also include people I do not really consider to be philosophers - like Newton.
<img src="http://www.math.arizona.edu/~savitt/GTM/warner.jpg" width=90 height=140 alt=""> | If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be Frank Warner's Foundations of Differentiable Manifolds and Lie Groups. I give a clear, detailed, and careful development of the basic facts on manifold theory and Lie Groups. I include differentiable manifolds, tensors and differentiable forms. Lie groups and homogenous spaces, integration on manifolds, and in addition provide a proof of the de Rham theorem via sheaf cohomology theory, and develop the local theory of elliptic operators culminating in a proof of the Hodge theorem. Those interested in any of the diverse areas of mathematics requiring the notion of a differentiable manifold will find me extremely useful. Which Springer GTM would you be? <a href="http://www.math.arizona.edu/~savitt/GTM.html">The Springer GTM Test</a> |
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For keeping articles up to date, rv vandalism and making sure they look like a wikipedia article Jeffklib 00:37, 2 October 2006 (UTC) |
I've also been cursed, but no need to belabour that ...
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If anybody deserves this, you do Glic16 (talk) 14:31, 27 May 2011 (UTC) |
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