# Facebook quiz: which philosopher do you most identify with? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 21, 2012, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-which-philosopher-do-you-most-identify-with/616376 "2012-03-21T05:03:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-which-philosopher-do-you-most-identify-with/616376/1 "2012-03-21T05:03:03Z")
My friends and I took it a year and half ago, my father heard us talking about it today and wanted to take it, but I can’t find it now. You answer a bunch of fundamental questions about your views and it spits out the philosopher you most closely agreed with. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-which-philosopher-do-you-most-identify-with/616376/2 "2012-03-21T05:16:08Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > My friends and I took it a year and half ago, my father heard us talking about it today and wanted to take it, but I can’t find it now. > > You answer a bunch of fundamental questions about your views and it spits out the philosopher you most closely agreed with. [Is this it?](http://www.gotoquiz.com/which_philosopher_are_you) ETA: Your Result: Aristotle Truth does not exist in some transcendent realm. We get to truth by applying reason to the physical world. The world follows logic and commonsense. Science if done properly is not to far from philosophy. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-which-philosopher-do-you-most-identify-with/616376/3 "2012-03-21T05:35:13Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > Your Result: Aristotle > > Truth does not exist in some transcendent realm. We get to truth by applying reason to the physical world. The world follows logic and commonsense. Science if done properly is not to far from philosophy. Same here. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-which-philosopher-do-you-most-identify-with/616376/4 "2012-03-21T07:31:49Z")
Stop the imposters. It says that I am Aristotle. That seems like a remarkably straightforward quiz. I wouldn’t respect anyone that got a different result. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-which-philosopher-do-you-most-identify-with/616376/5 "2012-03-21T08:25:56Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Stop the imposters. It says that I am Aristotle. That seems like a remarkably straightforward quiz. I wouldn’t respect anyone that got a different result. Camus/Sartre - I don’t get no respect; or should I say, “Je ne comprends pas aucun respect”. ---
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-which-philosopher-do-you-most-identify-with/616376/6 "2012-03-21T09:04:52Z")
“Je ne comprends pas aucun respect”, uh, neither. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-which-philosopher-do-you-most-identify-with/616376/7 "2012-03-21T09:22:35Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Stop the imposters. It says that I am Aristotle. That seems like a remarkably straightforward quiz. I wouldn’t respect anyone that got a different result. > [@](#): > > Your Result: Early Wittgenstein / Positivists > > The ambiguity of language is the cause for most (if not all) philosophical problems. If we could get a purely objective language all philosophical problems would be solved. Q.E.D. --This quiz was made by S. A-Lerer. But I don’t believe it, because that was a terribly written, ambiguous quiz, which used terms I am only fleetingly familiar with. I need to study philosophy to absorb the vocabulary before I can take the quiz with meaningful results. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-which-philosopher-do-you-most-identify-with/616376/8 "2012-03-21T10:04:10Z")
How on earth can I trust a quiz that can’t even spell properly? Sheesh :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-which-philosopher-do-you-most-identify-with/616376/9 "2012-03-21T10:30:00Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > How on earth can I trust a quiz that can’t even spell properly? > > Sheesh :rolleyes: To give an example or five… ) Emperical )Immitation )Dipicts )Virtous )Trancendent And I should trust these folk to understand my personal philosophic leanings? I don’t think so! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-which-philosopher-do-you-most-identify-with/616376/10 "2012-03-21T11:13:12Z")
Another Aristotle here . . . though some of the questions made sense only if you really were Aristotle. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-which-philosopher-do-you-most-identify-with/616376/11 "2012-03-21T12:17:26Z")
I’m Aristotle, and so’s my wife. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-which-philosopher-do-you-most-identify-with/616376/12 "2012-03-21T13:01:31Z")
Plato, probably like most mathematicians. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-which-philosopher-do-you-most-identify-with/616376/13 "2012-03-21T13:27:36Z")
Nietzsche. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-which-philosopher-do-you-most-identify-with/616376/14 "2012-03-21T13:38:01Z")
Yes, Aristotle, but the two right beneath are interesting as well: Early Wittgenstein / Positivists Sartre/Camus (late existentialists) I’ve got a certain amount of sympathy for both philosophies. ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-which-philosopher-do-you-most-identify-with/616376/15 "2012-03-21T14:17:57Z")
Too many questions for which I can’t agree with any of the answers, at least not without qualification. I found it to be an exercise in choosing among false dichotomies, which probably says something about my philosophical beliefs right there. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-which-philosopher-do-you-most-identify-with/616376/16 "2012-03-21T15:06:34Z")
Yeah, I am Aristotle (with a pinch of early and late Wittgenstein/Quine), which is as it should be, but yes the spelling mistakes were offputting and some of teh choices were incomprehensible or garbled (what was that one about life being fulgid?) I think, though, that false dichotomies and unsatisfactory choices, where you have to chose your least-bad answer rather than a satisfactory one, are an integral part of how quizzes of this sort are supposed to work. So far, everyone seems to be fairly happy with their eventual result. If it had put me down as Nietzsche or Plato, or even Sartre or full-on late Wittgenstein I would not have been happy. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-which-philosopher-do-you-most-identify-with/616376/17 "2012-03-21T19:32:23Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > Yeah, I am Aristotle (with a pinch of early and late Wittgenstein/Quine), which is as it should be, but yes the spelling mistakes were offputting and some of teh choices were incomprehensible or garbled (what was that one about life being fulgid?) Yeah, anyone can create a personality test these days. Thanks Internet. Most of them suck. Now I’m off to search Straight Dope for Myers-Briggs tests. I’ve taken many of those and it’s always the same: INTJ. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-which-philosopher-do-you-most-identify-with/616376/18 "2012-03-21T20:57:44Z")
I got Posivists but this was a silly quiz. It seems to be more a quiz about which definition of multimeaning words you favor rather than actual philosophical beliefs. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-which-philosopher-do-you-most-identify-with/616376/19 "2012-03-21T21:07:07Z")
Since this is GQ, I have to point out that this is not a Facebook quiz. Oh, and I got Aristotle as well. Though, man, are those some odd answers. Art is an attempt at communicating beauty. Duh.