Each paragraph offers a particular viewpoint based on a distinct perspective. Your task is to read each one closely and identify which worldview it expresses. Pay attention to what it values, how it sees reality, and what it dismisses. Let the underlying assumptions guide your recognition. Answers below.
Twelve Worldviews
Materialism
Spiritism
Realism
Idealism
Mathematism
Rationalism
Psychism
Pneumatism
Monadism
Dynamism
Phenomenalism
Sensationalism
What Is Truth?
Viewpoint 1
Truth isn’t found — it’s remembered. It reveals itself when the soul awakens to what it already knows beyond this life. The surface of things may lie, but the Spirit never does. Truth lives where the visible fails — in silence, in inner certainty, in communion with the unseen. What many call fantasy, I call recognition. The deepest truths can’t be proven — they must be recalled.
Viewpoint 2
Truth is not still. It moves. It breaks old structures and pushes into new territory. A truth that doesn’t disrupt, doesn’t shake something loose, is probably just convenience. Truth reveals itself in moments of energy — when you feel the pressure of change, the surge of clarity. It’s not calm acceptance. It’s awakening. It demands. It acts like a force — and that’s how I know it’s real.
Viewpoint 3
Truth is alive. It acts. It isn’t something you state — it’s something that speaks through you. The most powerful truths don’t just inform; they move. They call something forth in you that wasn’t awake before. A truth that doesn’t change the way you will is not yet true enough. I recognize truth by the fire it lights. Not just fact — force.
Viewpoint 4
Truth doesn’t float in space — it lives in minds. It isn’t just correctness, but resonance. I know something is true when it harmonizes with the life of my inner being. Thoughts that carry depth, that speak to the heart as well as the intellect, are closer to truth than dry declarations. Ideas must be inhabited to be real. Truth has soul, or it has nothing.
Viewpoint 5
Truth is what works in the physical world. If it helps you build, heal, survive, or measure — it’s true. Everything else is speculation. Don’t ask if it “feels” true — ask if it holds up under pressure, in the lab, in your hands. Truth isn’t abstract. It’s hard-won, concrete, and grounded in the material conditions of existence. If it doesn’t show up in results, it doesn’t matter.
Viewpoint 6
Truth is deeply individual. Each soul must come to it in their own way, from their own center. What’s true for one may not yet be real for another — not because it’s subjective, but because each person unfolds it differently. I trust what arises from within, from the coherence of my being. The truth I live by is shaped through the lens of who I uniquely am.
Viewpoint 7
Truth is what stands the test of clear thinking. If it can be reasoned through without collapse, it deserves trust. Emotion distorts; authority can mislead. But reason — pure, consistent, awake — can guide us through illusion. I don’t need to feel truth; I need to understand it. Only when thought moves freely, without contradiction, do we find something that can rightly be called true.
Viewpoint 8
I don’t claim to know the essence behind things. What I call truth is what shows itself to me with clarity — without pretense. A thought, a sight, a sound — these come as appearances, and I take them as they appear. I don’t try to go beyond them. Truth is in the given — in the revealed — not in speculation. What comes to meet me, just as it is, is enough.
Viewpoint 9
Truth isn’t just about facts — it’s about meaning. It must uplift, clarify, point us toward what’s better, not just what is. Cold correctness is not enough. A truth must participate in the higher order of things — in justice, beauty, coherence. If a fact is devoid of purpose, I question its relevance. Truth is never neutral. It shines. It guides. It reveals what ought to be.
Viewpoint 10
Truth is what holds consistently under logical conditions. If it can be formalized, modeled, or derived from first principles without contradiction, it has truth-value. Truth is not personal — it’s structural. Theorems don’t care about opinion. If you want to know what’s true, don’t ask how you feel — ask if it fits the system. Truth is found where elegance meets precision.
Viewpoint 11
Truth begins where sensation does. What I see, taste, touch — that’s what I trust. Abstract ideas might impress, but if they don’t connect to my senses, I’m skeptical. You can argue all day, but if I can’t feel it, smell it, experience it — is it real? Truth, to me, is vivid, immediate, present. If it doesn’t make contact with the senses, it never quite lands.
Viewpoint 12
Truth is what’s there whether you like it or not. It doesn’t care how you feel or what you believe. It’s the solid wall you hit when your ideas are wrong. To know truth, you have to look out at the world honestly, without trying to twist it into what you wish it was. If your thoughts don’t match reality, then your thoughts are the problem.
Answers
5. Materialism
1. Spiritism
12. Realism
9. Idealism
10. Mathematism
7. Rationalism
4. Psychism
3. Pneumatism
6. Monadism
2. Dynamism
8. Phenomenalism
11. Sensationalism
