If you classify western philosophers by what they led with, I think it is:
Epistemology-first: Spinoza, Descartes, Hume, Kant
Ontology-first: Hegel, Marx, Heidegger
Phenomenology-first: Nietzche, Husserl, Arendt
Treating these as stocks I think E is down, O is up, P is up a lot
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Taleb only does phenomenology in a fairly narrow sense. In most respects he strikes me as an epistemologist first.

