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 Are Your Underlying Assumptions?
Viewpoint 1
I hold that each person is a world. My assumptions begin with the self as a unique center of experience. I don’t believe in a single authority or system that fits everyone. Reality is shaped from the inside out. To understand anything, you must understand who is perceiving it. My worldview starts from the dignity of inner autonomy — every being as its own origin.
Viewpoint 2
I assume that what we call “reality” is appearance — not illusion, but presentation. We never grasp the thing-in-itself, only how it shows up to us. I pay attention to experience as it unfolds: what colors arise, what moods, what gestures. I don’t claim to know what lies behind. My concern is with how the world presents itself to consciousness — that’s where truth begins for me.
Viewpoint 3
I assume the senses don’t lie. Before thought, before analysis, there is the texture of life: the warmth of sun on skin, the bite of wind, the sound of someone’s voice. I trust that. If something doesn’t strike the senses, I question its place in my life. My worldview begins in direct experience — not in theory, not in concept, but in the raw immediacy of sensation.
Viewpoint 4
My assumption is that everything can be structured. The universe behaves in patterns — numbers, laws, relationships. I trust what can be formulated, what fits a system. If something can’t be mapped or modeled, I doubt its reliability. I don’t need emotional certainty; I need logical coherence. What’s real follows order. What’s meaningful can be calculated. That’s the basis of my view.
Viewpoint 5
I assume the world is filled with living purpose. Not random or mechanistic — intentional. When I act, I try to align with the deeper Will that moves through all things. I don’t see events as accidents, but as expressions of a spiritual current. The visible is guided by the invisible. My trust lies in the sense that everything has direction — not just existence.
Viewpoint 6
I assume what’s real is what’s physical. If it can’t be touched, built, or measured, it doesn’t belong in serious conversation. People talk about meaning or soul, but that’s just the brain doing what brains do. I believe in the body, in energy, in matter doing what it does under pressure. Everything else — belief, spirit, even love — is explainable in material terms if you look closely enough.
Viewpoint 7
I believe reality is rooted in meaning, not material. I assume that ideas have substance, that behind what is visible there’s a purpose shaping it. If something doesn’t carry a deeper significance, I question whether it’s real at all. My choices are guided by inner pictures of truth, beauty, and goodness. That’s where reality begins for me — in the idea that gives the world form.
Viewpoint 8
I assume everything happens because of forces. Nothing is static. Behind every decision, every mood, every event, there’s pressure, drive, resistance. I look not at surfaces but at flows — what’s pushing what? What’s being pulled where? For me, the world is not a collection of things, but of powers in motion. I trust the feeling of intensity over the appearance of calm.
Viewpoint 9
I begin from within. My deepest assumption is that reality unfolds through the soul. I trust what arises from inner experience, from the life of thought, feeling, and image. When something resonates inwardly, I follow it. To know the world, I believe you must first know the being who perceives it. The world is not a machine — it’s a soul-filled presence. That’s my lens.
Viewpoint 10
I start from the certainty that the outer world is a shadow. My true compass is inner knowing. What I see, I trust only if it echoes something I already feel to be spiritually true. I believe in higher worlds, guiding forces, invisible patterns shaping what appears. If I’m unsure, I look within, not out. My assumption is simple: nothing material exists without a spiritual cause.
Viewpoint 11
I assume that what’s out there is real. That the world exists whether I think about it or not. My senses give me a rough but reliable map, and while it’s not perfect, it’s enough to get things done. I don’t waste time doubting the obvious. If I can see it, test it, or work with it — I call it real. Everything starts with what's given.
Viewpoint 12
I assume that truth must make sense. If a belief contradicts itself or can’t be defended through reason, I reject it. I start from what can be clearly understood and logically built upon. I may respect emotion or tradition, but they’re not trustworthy guides. I believe reality must be intelligible. My foundation is reason — not feeling, not faith, not force.
Answers
6. Materialism
10. Spiritism
11. Realism
7. Idealism
4. Mathematism
12. Rationalism
9. Psychism
5. Pneumatism
1. Monadism
8. Dynamism
2. Phenomenalism
3. Sensationalism
