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1A priori knowledge is a knowledge that is justified independently of experience
- ATrue
- BFalse
2"Tadpoles become frogs" is an example of a posteriori knowledge.
- ATrue
- BFalse
3Logically necessary truths are examples of a posteriori knowledge
- ATrue
- BFalse
4Descartes doubted every one of his beliefs except those that were based on solid sense experience
- ATrue
- BFalse
5Ideas that are inborn or that the mind already contains prior to experience are called innate ideas
- ATrue
- BFalse
6The Statement "There is nothing in the intellect that was not first in the sense" expresses empiricism
- ATrue
- BFalse
7Kant tried to form a compromise between rationalism and atheism
- ATrue
- BFalse
8According to your text, objectivism is a dogmatic, authoritarian position in which the speaker claims that he or she has the absolute truth
- ATrue
- BFalse
9According to your text, the term "epistemology" comes from two Greek Words that mean
- Aopinion and belief
- Bknowledge and rational discourse
- Cquestioning and answers
- Dsearching and wisdom
10Philosophers, following Plato, have traditionally defined knowledge as
- Aa belief that someone embraces with conviction
- Btrue justified belief
- Csomething which is true, whether anyone is aware of it or not
- Dany opinion which is true, and leads to a successful life
11The adjective "empirical" refers to
- Aa claim for which no support is provided
- Banything that is based on experience
- Ca logically necessary truth
- Da knowledge that is based on a definition
12The claim "Either my team will win its next game or it won't" is an example of.....
- Aa logically necessary truth and a priori knowledge
- Ba logically necessary truth and a posteriori knowledge
- Cfactual information about the world and a posteriori knowledge
- Dempirical knowledge
13One of the three epistemological questions discussed in the text is
- AIs there such a thing as mental telepathy?
- BDoes our knowledge represent reality as it really is?
- CWhat is the meaning of life?
- DIs scientific knowledge incompatible with religious faith?
14The text referred to René Descartes's strategy for finding certainty as
- Athe inference to the best explanation
- Bthe Socratic method
- Cmethodological skepticism
- Dthe scientific method
15The primary reason that Descartes doubted so many things was
- Ahe has lost the will to go on living
- Bto show how foolish the ideas of his teachers were
- Cto find if there was any belief that was certain
- Dhe was trying to attack religious belief
16In his initial examination of his beliefs, the one thing that Descartes could not doubt was that
- Ahe was doubting
- Bhe had a body
- C2 + 3 = 5
- Dhe was awake and not dreaming
17Descartes's first bedrock of certainty was
- A"God exists"
- B"I am not now dreaming"
- C"I am, I exist."
- D"I have a body"
18Which of the following was one of the three anchor points of rationalism?
- AScientific knowledge is the only kind of knowledge there is
- BThe fundamental truths about the world can be known a priori
- CThere is no God
- DThe reasons we have for our beliefs are nothing more than human opinions
19According to the rationalist, logical truths, mathematical truths, and metaphysical truths are all examples of which kind of knowledge?
- Aempirical knowledge
- Ba posteriori knowledge
- Ca priori knowledge
- Dtruths that do not tell us anything about the world
20Innate ideas are ideas that
- Aare acquired through experience
- Bbased on an individual's cultural traditions
- Ccan never be known to be true
- Dthe mind already contains prior to experience
21In your reading from Plato's dialogue Phaedo, Socrates discusses
- Athe relationship between philosophy and the religious beliefs of his day
- Bthe method for forming a truly good society and appointing its leaders
- Chow we can have knowledge of perfect justice, beauty, goodness and equality.
- Dwhy it is impossible to harm a truly good person
22Descartes's principle "there must be as much reality in the cause as there is in the effect" was used to prove the existence of
- Ahis soul
- Bhis body
- CGod
- Dthe evil demon
23Descartes's argument for God's existence is based on
- Athe need for a reason to be moral
- Bthe fact that the universe requires a cause
- Cthe very idea of a perfect being
- Dthe order and design in the world
24According to Descartes, the explanation of how he had the idea of God in his mind is that
- Ahe intuited it from the beauty and grandeur of the universe
- BGod planted the idea within him
- Chis conscience and inner moral feelings led him to the idea of God
- Dall the above
25Descartes finally concluded that he could trust his sense experience because
- Aotherwise, life would not be worth living
- Bapart from experience, he would be unable to do science
- Ca good God would not deceive him
- Dthe knowledge gained through the senses is just too obvious to be doubted
26The empiricist believes that
- Athe only source of genuine knowledge is sense experience
- Bapart from experience, the reason is an unreliable and inadequate route to knowledge
- Cthere is no evidence of innate ideas within the mind
- Dall of the above
27Three of the empiricists discussed in the text were
- AJohn Locke, George Berkely, and David Hume
- BPlato, Rene Descartes, and John Locke
- CPlato, Gottfried Leibniz, and George Berkely
- DGottfried Leibniz, John Locke, David Hume
28According to your text, "idealism" means the belief
- Aone should have an optimistic outlook on life
- Bthe task of philosophy is to search for the ideal conditions of knowledge
- Cultimate reality is mental or spiritual in nature
- Dreality goes far beyond what we discover in sense experience
29Berkeley believed that the word "matter" refers to
- Anothing at all
- Bany object that is studied scientifically
- Cthe external cause of our perceptual experiences
- Dsomething that is real, but only known indirectly
30Berkeley believed that the word "apple" refers to
- Anothing more than a collection of experiences in our minds
- Ba material object
- Ca substance underlying what is experienced
- Dnothing, since reality, does not exist
31Hume was skeptical about which of the following beliefs
- Aour belief that the future will always be like the past
- Bour belief in an external world
- Cour belief in the existence of our self
- Dall of the above
32Since 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
- Aimpressions
- Bthe principle of induction
- Cthe laws of logic
- Dmethodological skepticism
33Hume says our causal judgments are based on
- Athe experience of a necessary connection between two events
- Bthe similarity between two events
- Cthe bedrock certainty of the sciences
- Dthe constant conjunction of two events in our past experience
34Hume's test for evaluating the worth of a book was to ask: Does it contain either......
- Amathematical reasoning or experimental reasoning about matters of fact?
- Bmorally uplifting advice or conclusions based on the author's experience?
- Cfacts based on common opinion or the testimony of authorities
- Dclear and distinct ideas or fruitful ideas that provoke the imagination
35Which of the following claims did Immanuel Kant assert?
- AAll our knowledge begins with experience
- BExperience alone cannot give us universal and necessary knowledge
- CThe mind constructs the objects of knowledge
- Dall of the above
36"Kant's revolution" refers to his proposal to
- Areverse the relationship between knowledge and its objects in epistemology
- Boverthrow the king
- Creplace Newtonian physics with his theory
- Doverthrow the claims of empiricism and return to pure rationalism
37The text referred to Kant's position as "constructivism" because
- Ait was not negative and destructive like previous theories
- Bhe tried to construct a bridge between scientific knowledge and religious knowledge
- Che believed all knowledge was constructed out of the innate ideas in the mind
- Dhe claimed that the mind forms its objects out of the raw data of experience
38In Kant's terminology, things-as-they-appear-to-us are called __________ and things-in themselves are called ________.
- Acomplex ideas / simple ideas
- Bideas/material objects
- Cthe phenomena/the noumena
- Dsecondary qualities/primary qualities
39According to Kant, the mind makes knowledge possible by
- Acreating reality out of itself
- Bimposing its own form on the materials of experience
- Cmirroring the structures of reality
- Ddiscovering the innate truths within the mind
40Kant's categories of the understanding are
- Ahabits of thought acquired through experience
- Bhis name for the laws of logic
- Claws of nature discovered by science
- Dorganizing principles the mind brings to the experience
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