Aristotle tops composite score at 100. Confucius ties at 100. Shankara ties at 100. Plato scores 87. Kant scores 74. Laozi scores 69. Nagarjuna scores 56. Ramanuja scores 55. Descartes and Zhuxi tie at 51. Rousseau scores 48. Buddha scores 47. Hegel scores 46. Mencius scores 40. Aquinas and Zhuangzi tie at 39. Locke scores 37. Hume scores 36. Augustine scores 30. Leibniz and Spinoza tie at 27. Socrates scores 26. Schopenhauer scores 24. Berkeley scores 21. Hobbes scores 19. Machiavelli scores 16. Wittgenstein scores 13. Heidegger scores 12. Voltaire scores 9. Marx, Rand, Evola, du Beauvoir, Adorno score 0. Objective metrics correlate moderately with each other but not with Murray's index scores. Murray's index unreliable for top philosophers' notability. Reddit subreddits English-biased against Chinese philosophers. Chomsky leads subreddit sizes at 90.6k subscribers. Nietzsche second at 60.1k. Wikipedia lengths favor moderns like Wittgenstein over Plato. English corpus frequency highest for Aristotle then Marx.
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