{"id":1180,"date":"2003-12-30T12:11:57","date_gmt":"2003-12-30T20:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2004-10-27T21:21:34","modified_gmt":"2004-10-28T05:21:34","slug":"the-freedom-to-change-my-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1180","title":{"rendered":"the freedom to change my mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did the <a href=http:\/\/selectsmart.com\/PHILOSOPHY\/>philosopher quiz<\/a> again and some of my scores shifted sharply from <a href=\".\/?p=6\">two years ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1.00 John Stuart Mill (same)<\/li>\n<li> .96 Epicureans (was .76)<\/li>\n<li> .95 Rand (was .44)<\/li>\n<li> .94 Noddings (was .44)<\/li>\n<li> .88 Hobbes (was .34)<\/li>\n<li> .82 Cynics (was .30)<\/li>\n<li> .77 Sartre (was .63)<\/li>\n<li> .74 Nietzsche (was .22)<\/li>\n<li> .72 Kant (was .65)<\/li>\n<li> .68 Bentham (was .82)<\/li>\n<li> .63 Spinoza (was .41)<\/li>\n<li> .60 Hume (was .25)<\/li>\n<li> .60 Prescriptivism (was .44)<\/li>\n<li> .58 Stoics (was .22)<\/li>\n<li> .51 Aristotle (was .51)<\/li>\n<li> .48 Aquinas (was .55)<\/li>\n<li> .29 Augustine (was .31)<\/li>\n<li> .19 Ockham (was .26)<\/li>\n<li> .07 Plato (was .16)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(<a href=http:\/\/www.SelectSmart.com\/PHILOSOPHY\/description.html>Summary of the 19 positions<\/a>.)  The results page says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe results are scored on a curve.  The highest score, 100, represents the closest philosophical match to your reponses.  This is not to say that you and the philosopher are in total agreement.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So absolute comparisons are less meaningful than one might prefer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did the philosopher quiz again and some of my scores shifted sharply from two years ago: 1.00 John Stuart Mill (same) .96 Epicureans (was .76) .95 Rand (was .44) .94 Noddings (was .44) .88 Hobbes (was .34) .82 Cynics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1180\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-mememe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}