Survey Results

Plato (what is his view?): knowledge only of forms or knowledge also of concrete things?

Population

AOS

Region

for

Exclude answers beyond respondent's first 50

Include skip/insufficiently familiar answers

634 respondents

What the percentages mean: "Accept or lean toward P: 50% (40%)" means that 50% of respondents endorsed this answer inclusively (including multiple-answer endorsements) and 40% endorsed this answer exclusively (excluding multiple-answer endorsements).

These results should not be used for comparison to 2009 results due to different populations and parameters. For meaningful longitudinal comparisons, see the longitudinal analysis section.

Collapse accept and lean towards

Accept or lean towards:
knowledge only of forms

52.84% (52.52%)

Reject or lean against:
knowledge only of forms

0.00% (0.00%)

Accept or lean towards:
knowledge also of concrete things

28.23% (27.92%)

Reject or lean against:
knowledge also of concrete things

0.00% (0.00%)

Accept a combination of views

0.32%

Accept an alternative view

1.26%

The question is too unclear to answer

4.42%

There is no fact of the matter

2.21%

Agnostic/undecided

11.20%

Other

0.16%

N = 634, excluding skipped & insufficiently familiar (491 respondents)

Longitudinal comparison to 2009 survey

This question was not in the 2009 survey

Strongest correlations with main questions (target population)

r: -0.2	Quantum mechanics: epistemic
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	25	140
Reject	16	97

n: 278

p: 0.0009

r: -0.19	Quantum mechanics: collapse
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	24	142
Reject	18	94

n: 278

p: 0.0019

r: -0.18	Propositions: acts
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	21	207
Reject	21	131

n: 380

p: 0.0004

r: -0.16	Meaning of life: objective
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	111	175
Reject	107	99

n: 492

p: 0.0003

r: 0.14	Law: legal positivism
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	78	101
Reject	47	95

n: 321

p: 0.0099

r: 0.14	External world: skepticism
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	33	280
Reject	9	226

n: 548

p: 0.0009

r: -0.14	Properties: immanent universals
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	49	164
Reject	33	113

n: 359

p: 0.0085

r: -0.14	External world: non-skeptical realism
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	248	63
Reject	210	25

n: 546

p: 0.0014

r: 0.14	Propositional attitudes: representational
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	110	101
Reject	66	99

n: 376

p: 0.0081

r: 0.13	Experience machine: yes
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	59	241
Reject	19	188

n: 507

p: 0.0029

r: 0.12	Laws of nature: Humean
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	114	189
Reject	56	163

n: 522

p: 0.0062

r: -0.12	True contradictions: actual
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	42	218
Reject	30	144

n: 434

p: 0.0149

r: -0.12	Propositional attitudes: dispositional
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	62	150
Reject	68	97

n: 377

p: 0.0239

r: 0.11	Semantic content: minimalism (no more than a few)
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	24	201
Reject	12	143

n: 380

p: 0.0342

r: -0.11	Consciousness: panpsychism
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	21	224
Reject	21	153

n: 419

p: 0.0288

r: 0.11	Gender: psychological
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	96	198
Reject	49	170

n: 513

p: 0.0158

r: -0.11	Vagueness: epistemic
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	76	199
Reject	68	128

n: 471

p: 0.0226

r: -0.1	Causation: process/production
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	58	183
Reject	48	120

n: 409

p: 0.0352

r: -0.1	Aesthetic value: objective
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	155	137
Reject	133	91

n: 516

p: 0.0231

r: 0.1	Personal identity: biological view
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	91	178
Reject	38	152

n: 459

p: 0.0337

r: 0.1	True contradictions: impossible
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	188	72
Reject	117	57

n: 434

p: 0.0389

r: 0.1	Hume: skeptic
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	124	140
Reject	66	112

n: 442

p: 0.0381

r: -0.1	Response to external-world skepticism: dogmatist
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	26	211
Reject	26	144

n: 407

p: 0.047

r: 0.1	Mental content: internalism
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	100	178
Reject	53	147

n: 478

p: 0.0338

r: -0.09	Truth: epistemic
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	30	258
Reject	34	180

n: 502

p: 0.0338

r: -0.09	Practical reason: Aristotelian
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	121	142
Reject	88	91

n: 442

p: 0.0467

r: -0.09	Personal identity: further-fact view
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	47	221
Reject	45	144

n: 457

p: 0.0439

r: 0.09	External world: idealism
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	27	286
Reject	17	218

n: 548

p: 0.0348

r: -0.09	Meta-ethics: moral realism
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	203	105
Reject	176	57

n: 541

p: 0.0402

r: 0.09	Metaphilosophy: naturalism
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	166	125
Reject	107	104

n: 502

p: 0.0492

Strongest correlations with demographic questions (target population)

r: -0.11	Philosopher: Marx
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Yes	No
Accept	7	265
Reject	16	181

n: 469

p: 0.0206

r: -0.11	Philosopher: Plato
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Yes	No
Accept	18	254
Reject	22	175

n: 469

p: 0.0217

r: 0.1	AOS: 17th/18th Century Philosophy
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Yes	No
Accept	51	277
Reject	20	225

n: 573

p: 0.0128