User:Silverback
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semi-degree-ed philosopher scientist, judge my posts on the merits, not credentials
I took a test linked to on User:RyanFreisling page. Strangely, I scored 88% materialist, even though I was unable to fully agree with what they would seem to consider the quintessential materialist question, "Anything can be reduced to simple understandable components", because I think it is possible for there to be emergent properties at higher levels of complexity. I was surprised that I was so low on their idealist rating. I guess they don't consider the pursuit of truth an ideal.--Silverback 07:08, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
You scored as Materialist. Materialism stresses the essence of fundamental particles. Everything that exists is purely physical matter and there is no special force that holds life together. You believe that anything can be explained by breaking it up into its pieces. i.e. the big picture can be understood by its smaller elements.
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