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• PHIL101_MH_V6
• Topic 3: Epistemology: The Search for Knowledge
Started on Sunday, April 3, 2022, 5:12 PM
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Which of the following branches of philosophy does NOT involve questions related to values?
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a. Moral
b. Metaphysics
c. Social
d. Political
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_____ is defined as the philosophical study of art and of value judgments about art.
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a. Aesthetics
b. Epistemology
c. Logic
d. Metaphysics
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The fallacy of _____ amounts to transferring the qualities of a spokesperson to his or her insights, arguments, beliefs, or positions.
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a. red herring
b. begging the question
c. straw man
d. argumentum ad hominem
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Thinking that a person's position is frightening because the person himself is frightening would be an obvious mistake in reasoning. This is an example of the fallacy of _____.
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a. argumentum ad hominem
b. switching the burden of proof
c. false dilemma
d. reductio ad absurdum
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Thales, Anaximenes, and Anaximander are collectively known as the _____.
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a. Atomists
b. Pythagoreans
c. Milesians
d. Particle Theorists
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Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and fundamental properties of _____.
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a. knowledge
b. god
c. beauty
d. being
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Which of the following statements is true about Anaxagoras?
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a. He introduced into metaphysics an important distinction, that between matter and mind.
b. He thought that basic particles were indivisible.
c. He held that there were four different kinds of particles.
d. He believed that particles were always in motion.
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Which is a theme common to all the pre-Socratics?
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a. Nothing changes.
b. Everything is made of particles.
c. The experienced world is a manifestation of a more fundamental underlying reality.
d. True reality is unknowable.
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The most famous dialogue of Plato is _____, from the so-called middle period of Plato's writings, during which Plato reached the peak of his genius.
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a. the Republic
b. the Apology
c. the Meno
d. the Gorgias
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Which of the following statements would Plato have agreed with?
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a. The senses alone can provide knowledge.
b. Physical objects are eternal, perfect, and unchanging.
c. Man is the measure of all things.
d. The senses are a source of error, illusion, and ignorance.
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Plato's three famous theories are as follows:
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a. the Theory of Forms, the Theory of Knowledge, and the Theory of the Oracle.
b. the Theory of Fire and Becoming, the Tunnel Theory, and the Theory of Knowledge.
c. the Theory of Becoming, the Theory of Relativity, and the Theory of the Absolute Truth.
d. the Theory of Knowledge, the Theory of Love and Becoming, and the Theory of Forms.
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Which of the following is NOT one of the ten basic categories Aristotle used to describe the ways in which humans think about things?
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a. posture
b. activity
c. quality
d. weight
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Aristotle's works include all of the following EXCEPT _____.
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a. the Confessions
b. the Metaphysics
c. the Poetics
d. the Nicomachean Ethics
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Which of the following ancient traditions did Plotinus represent?
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a. Stoicism
b. Epicureanism
c. Skepticism
d. Neoplatonism
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Which of the following views of Aristotle did Aquinas disagree with?
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a. Physical things are always a blend of matter plus form.
b. The essence of a thing is the same as its existence.
c. One and the same form (universal) can be in more than one physical thing (particular).
d. Change is explained in terms of four causes: the formal, the material, the efficient, and the final.
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According to Rene Descartes, "clarity and distinctness" was a mark of _____.
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a. God
b. goodness
c. truth
d. rationality
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Some of Descartes's followers proposed a solution to the problem of how the immaterial mind interacts with the material body, given that the body is supposed to be subject to physical laws. The solution is called _____.
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a. parallelism
b. Epicureanism
c. determinism
d. druidism
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Anne Conway advocated what sort of metaphysics?
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a. materialism
b. idealism
c. dualism
d. monadology
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What did George Berkeley mean about such things as tables and chairs when he denied the existence of matter?
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a. There are no unperceived tables and chairs.
b. There are no tables and chairs.
c. Tables and chairs are really just swarms of particles in motion.
d. Everything, including tables and chairs, is an illusion.
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The most famous monadology in the history of philosophy is that of _____.
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a. Thomas Hobbes
b. Baron von Leibniz
c. Benedictus de Spinoza
d. Gottfried Wilhelm [Show Less]
