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Philosophy - Chapter 3

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Question 1

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A priori knowledge is a knowledge that is justified independently of experience
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  • True
  • False

Question 2

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"Tadpoles become frogs" is an example of a posteriori knowledge.
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  • True
  • False

Question 3

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Logically necessary truths are examples of a posteriori knowledge
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  • True
  • False

Question 4

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Descartes doubted every one of his beliefs except those that were based on solid sense experience
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  • True
  • False

Question 5

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Ideas that are inborn or that the mind already contains prior to experience are called innate ideas
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  • True
  • False

Question 6

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The Statement "There is nothing in the intellect that was not first in the sense" expresses empiricism
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  • True
  • False

Question 7

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Kant tried to form a compromise between rationalism and atheism
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  • True
  • False

Question 8

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According to your text, objectivism is a dogmatic, authoritarian position in which the speaker claims that he or she has the absolute truth
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  • True
  • False

Question 9

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According to your text, the term "epistemology" comes from two Greek Words that mean
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  • opinion and belief
  • knowledge and rational discourse
  • questioning and answers
  • searching and wisdom

Question 10

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Philosophers, following Plato, have traditionally defined knowledge as
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  • a belief that someone embraces with conviction
  • true justified belief
  • something which is true, whether anyone is aware of it or not
  • any opinion which is true, and leads to a successful life

Question 11

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The adjective "empirical" refers to
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  • a claim for which no support is provided
  • anything that is based on experience
  • a logically necessary truth
  • a knowledge that is based on a definition

Question 12

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The claim "Either my team will win its next game or it won't" is an example of.....
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  • a logically necessary truth and a priori knowledge
  • a logically necessary truth and a posteriori knowledge
  • factual information about the world and a posteriori knowledge
  • empirical knowledge

Question 13

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One of the three epistemological questions discussed in the text is
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  • Is there such a thing as mental telepathy?
  • Does our knowledge represent reality as it really is?
  • What is the meaning of life?
  • Is scientific knowledge incompatible with religious faith?

Question 14

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The text referred to René Descartes's strategy for finding certainty as
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  • the inference to the best explanation
  • the Socratic method
  • methodological skepticism
  • the scientific method

Question 15

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The primary reason that Descartes doubted so many things was
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  • he has lost the will to go on living
  • to show how foolish the ideas of his teachers were
  • to find if there was any belief that was certain
  • he was trying to attack religious belief

Question 16

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In his initial examination of his beliefs, the one thing that Descartes could not doubt was that
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  • he was doubting
  • he had a body
  • 2 + 3 = 5
  • he was awake and not dreaming

Question 17

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Descartes's first bedrock of certainty was
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  • "God exists"
  • "I am not now dreaming"
  • "I am, I exist."
  • "I have a body"

Question 18

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Which of the following was one of the three anchor points of rationalism?
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  • Scientific knowledge is the only kind of knowledge there is
  • The fundamental truths about the world can be known a priori
  • There is no God
  • The reasons we have for our beliefs are nothing more than human opinions

Question 19

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According to the rationalist, logical truths, mathematical truths, and metaphysical truths are all examples of which kind of knowledge?
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  • empirical knowledge
  • a posteriori knowledge
  • a priori knowledge
  • truths that do not tell us anything about the world

Question 20

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Innate ideas are ideas that
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  • are acquired through experience
  • based on an individual's cultural traditions
  • can never be known to be true
  • the mind already contains prior to experience

Question 21

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In your reading from Plato's dialogue Phaedo, Socrates discusses
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  • the relationship between philosophy and the religious beliefs of his day
  • the method for forming a truly good society and appointing its leaders
  • how we can have knowledge of perfect justice, beauty, goodness and equality.
  • why it is impossible to harm a truly good person

Question 22

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Descartes's principle "there must be as much reality in the cause as there is in the effect" was used to prove the existence of
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  • his soul
  • his body
  • God
  • the evil demon

Question 23

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Descartes's argument for God's existence is based on
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  • the need for a reason to be moral
  • the fact that the universe requires a cause
  • the very idea of a perfect being
  • the order and design in the world

Question 24

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According to Descartes, the explanation of how he had the idea of God in his mind is that
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  • he intuited it from the beauty and grandeur of the universe
  • God planted the idea within him
  • his conscience and inner moral feelings led him to the idea of God
  • all the above

Question 25

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Descartes finally concluded that he could trust his sense experience because
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  • otherwise, life would not be worth living
  • apart from experience, he would be unable to do science
  • a good God would not deceive him
  • the knowledge gained through the senses is just too obvious to be doubted

Question 26

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The empiricist believes that
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  • the only source of genuine knowledge is sense experience
  • apart from experience, the reason is an unreliable and inadequate route to knowledge
  • there is no evidence of innate ideas within the mind
  • all of the above

Question 27

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Three of the empiricists discussed in the text were
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  • John Locke, George Berkely, and David Hume
  • Plato, Rene Descartes, and John Locke
  • Plato, Gottfried Leibniz, and George Berkely
  • Gottfried Leibniz, John Locke, David Hume

Question 28

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According to your text, "idealism" means the belief
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  • one should have an optimistic outlook on life
  • the task of philosophy is to search for the ideal conditions of knowledge
  • ultimate reality is mental or spiritual in nature
  • reality goes far beyond what we discover in sense experience

Question 29

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Berkeley believed that the word "matter" refers to
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  • nothing at all
  • any object that is studied scientifically
  • the external cause of our perceptual experiences
  • something that is real, but only known indirectly

Question 30

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Berkeley believed that the word "apple" refers to
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  • nothing more than a collection of experiences in our minds
  • a material object
  • a substance underlying what is experienced
  • nothing, since reality, does not exist

Question 31

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Hume was skeptical about which of the following beliefs
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  • our belief that the future will always be like the past
  • our belief in an external world
  • our belief in the existence of our self
  • all of the above

Question 32

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Since fire has burned us in the past, we believe that fire will burn us in the future. According to Hume, this reasoning is based on
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  • impressions
  • the principle of induction
  • the laws of logic
  • methodological skepticism

Question 33

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Hume says our causal judgments are based on
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  • the experience of a necessary connection between two events
  • the similarity between two events
  • the bedrock certainty of the sciences
  • the constant conjunction of two events in our past experience

Question 34

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Hume's test for evaluating the worth of a book was to ask: Does it contain either......
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  • mathematical reasoning or experimental reasoning about matters of fact?
  • morally uplifting advice or conclusions based on the author's experience?
  • facts based on common opinion or the testimony of authorities
  • clear and distinct ideas or fruitful ideas that provoke the imagination

Question 35

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Which of the following claims did Immanuel Kant assert?
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  • All our knowledge begins with experience
  • Experience alone cannot give us universal and necessary knowledge
  • The mind constructs the objects of knowledge
  • all of the above

Question 36

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"Kant's revolution" refers to his proposal to
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  • reverse the relationship between knowledge and its objects in epistemology
  • overthrow the king
  • replace Newtonian physics with his theory
  • overthrow the claims of empiricism and return to pure rationalism

Question 37

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The text referred to Kant's position as "constructivism" because
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  • it was not negative and destructive like previous theories
  • he tried to construct a bridge between scientific knowledge and religious knowledge
  • he believed all knowledge was constructed out of the innate ideas in the mind
  • he claimed that the mind forms its objects out of the raw data of experience

Question 38

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In Kant's terminology, things-as-they-appear-to-us are called __________ and things-in themselves are called ________.
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  • complex ideas / simple ideas
  • ideas/material objects
  • the phenomena/the noumena
  • secondary qualities/primary qualities

Question 39

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According to Kant, the mind makes knowledge possible by
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  • creating reality out of itself
  • imposing its own form on the materials of experience
  • mirroring the structures of reality
  • discovering the innate truths within the mind

Question 40

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Kant's categories of the understanding are
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  • habits of thought acquired through experience
  • his name for the laws of logic
  • laws of nature discovered by science
  • organizing principles the mind brings to the experience
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