Survey Results

Correlations

Metaontology: heavyweight realism

Note: For philosophical questions with only two main suggested answers, only one answer (randomly selected) can be looked up for correlations.

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Strongest correlations with philosophical questions

r: 0.5
Truth: correspondence
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 214 39
Reject 128 194
n: 575
p < 0.0001
r: -0.46
Truth: deflationary
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 29 224
Reject 148 172
n: 573
p < 0.0001
r: 0.39
Moral judgment: cognitivism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 232 23
Reject 203 111
n: 569
p < 0.0001
r: 0.39
Meta-ethics: moral realism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 236 34
Reject 183 145
n: 598
p < 0.0001
r: 0.36
Abstract objects: Platonism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 168 79
Reject 103 202
n: 552
p < 0.0001
r: -0.36
Theory of reference: deflationary
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 12 191
Reject 73 181
n: 457
p < 0.0001
r: -0.33
Knowledge: empiricism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 84 130
Reject 188 89
n: 491
p < 0.0001
r: -0.33
Morality: expressivism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 7 231
Reject 52 216
n: 506
p < 0.0001
r: -0.33
Spacetime: relationism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 62 115
Reject 112 80
n: 369
p < 0.0001
r: 0.33
Aesthetic value: objective
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 174 77
Reject 124 172
n: 547
p < 0.0001
r: 0.32
Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 183 80
Reject 131 208
n: 602
p < 0.0001
r: 0.32
Meaning of life: objective
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 134 91
Reject 83 205
n: 513
p < 0.0001
r: 0.32
Science: scientific realism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 247 19
Reject 231 89
n: 586
p < 0.0001
r: -0.32
Laws of nature: Humean
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 46 206
Reject 131 186
n: 569
p < 0.0001
r: 0.31
Knowledge claims: invariantism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 116 122
Reject 67 238
n: 543
p < 0.0001
r: 0.31
Morality: non-naturalism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 110 128
Reject 42 223
n: 503
p < 0.0001
r: -0.31
Justification: coherentism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 30 192
Reject 77 155
n: 454
p < 0.0001
r: 0.29
Concepts: nativism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 95 95
Reject 70 171
n: 431
p < 0.0001
r: -0.28
Response to external-world skepticism: pragmatic
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 23 195
Reject 87 181
n: 486
p < 0.0001
r: 0.28
Consciousness: dualism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 91 129
Reject 39 225
n: 484
p < 0.0001
r: 0.27
Theory of reference: causal
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 130 75
Reject 105 151
n: 461
p < 0.0001
r: 0.27
Cosmological fine-tuning: design
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 64 137
Reject 17 196
n: 414
p < 0.0001
r: -0.27
Extended mind: yes
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 86 131
Reject 166 98
n: 481
p < 0.0001
r: 0.27
Continuum hypothesis: determinate
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 79 62
Reject 47 110
n: 298
p < 0.0001
r: -0.26
Morality: constructivism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 22 216
Reject 77 189
n: 504
p < 0.0001
r: 0.25
A priori knowledge: yes
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 230 33
Reject 233 104
n: 600
p < 0.0001
r: 0.25
True contradictions: impossible
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 204 33
Reject 170 83
n: 490
p < 0.0001
r: 0.24
Immortality: yes
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 145 88
Reject 119 175
n: 527
p < 0.0001
r: 0.24
Hard problem of consciousness: yes
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 169 55
Reject 152 133
n: 509
p < 0.0001
r: 0.23
Justification: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 98 123
Reject 53 180
n: 454
p < 0.0001
r: 0.23
Wittgenstein: early
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 86 121
Reject 64 206
n: 477
p < 0.0001
r: -0.23
Truth: epistemic
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 9 244
Reject 48 272
n: 573
p < 0.0001
r: 0.22
Propositional attitudes: representational
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 130 78
Reject 112 142
n: 462
p < 0.0001
r: 0.22
Method in history of philosophy: analytic/rational reconstruction
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 159 44
Reject 155 101
n: 459
p < 0.0001
r: -0.22
Knowledge claims: contextualism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 100 138
Reject 189 117
n: 544
p < 0.0001
r: -0.22
Cosmological fine-tuning: no fine-tuning
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 37 163
Reject 70 145
n: 415
p < 0.0001
r: -0.22
Properties: nonexistent
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 15 209
Reject 33 186
n: 443
p < 0.0001
r: -0.22
Semantic content: radical contextualism (most or all)
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 26 160
Reject 78 176
n: 440
p < 0.0001
r: 0.21
External world: non-skeptical realism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 244 25
Reject 274 60
n: 603
p < 0.0001
r: -0.21
Foundations of mathematics: constructivism/intuitionism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 10 141
Reject 48 147
n: 346
p < 0.0001
r: 0.21
Philosophical progress: a lot
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 159 106
Reject 135 192
n: 592
p < 0.0001
r: 0.21
Causation: primitive
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 76 147
Reject 31 209
n: 463
p < 0.0001
r: 0.21
Propositions: structured entities
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 111 100
Reject 87 152
n: 450
p < 0.0001
r: -0.21
Abortion: permissible
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 180 61
Reject 272 27
n: 540
p < 0.0001
r: 0.21
Grounds of intentionality: primitive
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 46 131
Reject 17 203
n: 397
p < 0.0001
r: -0.2
Grounds of intentionality: interpretational
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 14 163
Reject 56 166
n: 399
p < 0.0001
r: -0.2
Metaphilosophy: naturalism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 109 125
Reject 190 118
n: 542
p < 0.0001
r: -0.2
Morality: error theory
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 9 227
Reject 19 248
n: 503
p < 0.0001
r: -0.2
True contradictions: actual
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 16 221
Reject 48 205
n: 490
p < 0.0001
r: -0.2
Propositions: nonexistent
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 27 183
Reject 56 182
n: 448
p < 0.0001
r: -0.2
Interlevel metaphysics: realization
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 46 155
Reject 63 153
n: 417
p < 0.0001
r: 0.2
Logic: classical
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 169 62
Reject 147 128
n: 506
p < 0.0001
r: 0.2
Moral principles: moral generalism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 151 68
Reject 127 132
n: 478
p < 0.0001
r: -0.2
Consciousness: functionalism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 63 157
Reject 120 146
n: 486
p < 0.0001
r: 0.19
Personal identity: further-fact view
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 69 165
Reject 36 241
n: 511
p < 0.0001
r: -0.19
Possible worlds: nonexistent
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 63 176
Reject 108 184
n: 531
p < 0.0001
r: 0.19
Aim of philosophy: truth/knowledge
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 157 102
Reject 136 178
n: 573
p < 0.0001
r: 0.19
God: theism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 84 177
Reject 53 276
n: 590
p < 0.0001
r: -0.19
Meaning of life: subjective
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 65 162
Reject 134 154
n: 515
p < 0.0001
r: -0.18
Well-being: hedonism/experientialism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 25 180
Reject 45 196
n: 446
p < 0.0001
r: 0.18
Other minds: newborn babies
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 214 23
Reject 243 49
n: 529
p < 0.0001
r: -0.18
Properties: classes
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 15 208
Reject 38 181
n: 442
p < 0.0001
r: -0.18
Mind: physicalism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 121 133
Reject 200 120
n: 574
p < 0.0001
r: -0.18
Experience machine: yes
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 22 225
Reject 56 250
n: 553
p < 0.0001
r: 0.18
Quantum mechanics: hidden-variables
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 48 96
Reject 25 145
n: 314
p: 0.0016
r: -0.18
Causation: nonexistent
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 5 218
Reject 19 221
n: 463
p < 0.0001
r: -0.18
External world: idealism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 14 255
Reject 26 308
n: 603
p < 0.0001
r: 0.17
Properties: transcendent universals
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 74 149
Reject 29 190
n: 442
p: 0.0002
r: 0.17
Well-being: objective list
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 135 71
Reject 120 121
n: 447
p: 0.0002
r: -0.17
External world: skepticism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 10 259
Reject 26 308
n: 603
p < 0.0001
r: 0.17
Material composition: restrictivism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 91 85
Reject 52 111
n: 339
p: 0.0019
r: 0.17
Philosophical knowledge: a lot
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 167 79
Reject 155 128
n: 529
p < 0.0001
r: 0.17
Interlevel metaphysics: grounding
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 98 105
Reject 63 154
n: 420
p: 0.0006
r: -0.17
True contradictions: possible but non-actual
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 8 229
Reject 22 231
n: 490
p: 0.0002
r: -0.16
Material composition: nihilism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 12 164
Reject 15 148
n: 339
p: 0.0023
r: -0.16
Causation: counterfactual/difference-making
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 69 157
Reject 101 140
n: 467
p: 0.0005
r: 0.16
Possible worlds: abstract
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 154 86
Reject 160 132
n: 532
p: 0.0002
r: 0.16
Arguments for theism: cosmological
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 73 140
Reject 46 198
n: 457
p: 0.0007
r: 0.16
Free will: libertarianism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 80 184
Reject 47 289
n: 600
p < 0.0001
r: -0.16
Philosophical progress: a little
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 103 162
Reject 177 150
n: 592
p < 0.0001
r: -0.16
Consciousness: eliminativism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 6 214
Reject 22 241
n: 483
p: 0.0006
r: -0.16
Chinese room: understands
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 29 196
Reject 69 202
n: 496
p: 0.0005
r: -0.15
Moral motivation: internalism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 93 134
Reject 137 135
n: 499
p: 0.0006
r: 0.15
Method in political philosophy: ideal theory
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 61 96
Reject 59 142
n: 358
p: 0.0038
r: 0.15
Analysis of knowledge: other analysis
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 103 131
Reject 78 205
n: 517
p: 0.0006
r: 0.15
Grounds of intentionality: causal/teleological
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 77 100
Reject 68 153
n: 398
p: 0.0031
r: -0.15
Material composition: universalism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 60 116
Reject 57 106
n: 339
p: 0.0065
r: -0.15
Grounds of intentionality: inferential
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 10 167
Reject 30 190
n: 397
p: 0.0036
r: -0.14
Free will: compatibilism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 144 120
Reject 242 96
n: 602
p: 0.0004
r: -0.14
Personal identity: psychological view
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 101 134
Reject 150 129
n: 514
p: 0.0014
r: 0.14
Rational disagreement: non-permissivism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 62 163
Reject 45 228
n: 498
p: 0.002
r: 0.14
Response to external-world skepticism: dogmatist
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 49 170
Reject 27 235
n: 481
p: 0.0025
r: 0.14
Zombies: metaphysically possible
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 93 156
Reject 71 226
n: 546
p: 0.0013
r: -0.14
Practical reason: Humean
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 44 130
Reject 92 143
n: 409
p: 0.0058
r: -0.13
Meaning of life: nonexistent
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 37 187
Reject 69 218
n: 511
p: 0.0033
r: 0.13
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 197 68
Reject 214 127
n: 606
p: 0.0017
r: 0.13
Semantic content: minimalism (no more than a few)
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 32 154
Reject 23 231
n: 440
p: 0.0078
r: 0.13
Politics: capitalism
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 86 121
Reject 75 191
n: 473
p: 0.0059
r: 0.13
Response to external-world skepticism: abductive
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 71 148
Reject 50 217
n: 486
p: 0.0054
r: 0.13
Hume: skeptic
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Accept Reject
Accept 79 104
Reject 91 165
n: 439
p: 0.0085

Strongest correlations with demographic questions

r: 0.29
AOS: Metaphysics
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Yes No
Accept 128 138
Reject 71 281
n: 618
p < 0.0001
r: 0.19
AOS: Philosophy of Religion
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Yes No
Accept 46 220
Reject 21 331
n: 618
p < 0.0001
r: 0.18
Philosopher: Moore
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Yes No
Accept 18 184
Reject 4 278
n: 484
p < 0.0001
r: -0.18
Philosopher: Wittgenstein
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Yes No
Accept 11 191
Reject 41 241
n: 484
p < 0.0001
r: 0.15
Philosopher: Aquinas
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Yes No
Accept 22 180
Reject 5 277
n: 484
p: 0.0007
r: 0.13
Region of nationality: United States
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Yes No
Accept 146 108
Reject 156 178
n: 588
p: 0.0014
r: 0.13
Philosopher: Leibniz
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Yes No
Accept 17 185
Reject 6 276
n: 484
p: 0.0038
r: -0.13
Philosopher: Carnap
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Yes No
Accept 7 195
Reject 24 258
n: 484
p: 0.0049
r: 0.13
Philosopher: Russell
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Yes No
Accept 28 174
Reject 16 266
n: 484
p: 0.0051
r: 0.13
Philosopher: Plato
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Yes No
Accept 22 180
Reject 11 271
n: 484
p: 0.0059
r: -0.12
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Yes No
Accept 6 260
Reject 23 329
n: 618
p: 0.0029
r: 0.12
Philosopher: Aristotle
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Yes No
Accept 54 148
Reject 45 237
n: 484
p: 0.0087
r: 0.12
Tradition: Analytic
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Yes No
Accept 239 22
Reject 297 50
n: 608
p: 0.0043
r: -0.11
Region of nationality: Europe
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Yes No
Accept 42 212
Reject 83 251
n: 588
p: 0.0068
r: -0.11
Region of affiliation: Europe
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Yes No
Accept 33 237
Reject 72 281
n: 623
p: 0.0056
r: -0.11
Region of PhD: Europe
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Yes No
Accept 9 185
Reject 29 225
n: 448
p: 0.0191
r: 0.11
Region of affiliation: United States
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Yes No
Accept 163 107
Reject 184 169
n: 623
p: 0.0079
r: -0.1
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Yes No
Accept 17 249
Reject 42 310
n: 618
p: 0.0126
r: -0.1
AOS: Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Yes No
Accept 17 249
Reject 45 307
n: 618
p: 0.0137
r: 0.1
Philosopher: Lewis
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Yes No
Accept 38 164
Reject 35 247
n: 484
p: 0.0295
r: -0.1
AOS: General Philosophy of Science
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Yes No
Accept 25 241
Reject 51 301
n: 618
p: 0.0143
r: 0.1
AOS: Meta-Ethics
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Yes No
Accept 55 211
Reject 46 306
n: 618
p: 0.0164
r: 0.1
Philosopher: Descartes
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Yes No
Accept 13 189
Reject 10 272
n: 484
p: 0.0348
r: -0.09
AOS: 20th Century Philosophy
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Yes No
Accept 12 254
Reject 30 322
n: 618
p: 0.0228
r: -0.08
Gender: female
Metaontology: heavyweight realism Yes No
Accept 21 242
Reject 61 289
n: 613
p: 0.0485