Exam 2: Theory of Knowledge

Descartes' major contribution to philosophy lies more in the method he developed than the results he achieved.

The heart of the "epistemological turn" was:

To doubt something, in Descartes' sense, is to believe it is false.

What we think of as sense perceptions, Hume would call "impressions."

The purpose of Descartes' "thought experiment" with the lump of wax was to show that:

Descartes intended the experiment with the lump of wax to provide scientific evidence in support of rationalism.

Leibniz calls truths that cannot be justified by the laws of logic:

Hume did not believe that:

Prior to Descartes, epistemology took precedence over metaphysics.

The contradictory of "Parmita is a vegetarian" is:

Descartes' criteria of certainty--clarity and distinctness--tell us important things about the structure of knowledge.

According to the Law of Contradiction, it's impossible for a statement and its contradictory to both be true.

Which of the following are empiricists?

Descartes' method suggests we should work on the simplest parts of a problem first.

In his Meditations, Descartes says that the motivation for his project was a desire to:

Epistemological skepticism is the view that:

Kant invented the "unity of consciousness" to solve the epistemological problem of:

To doubt something, in Descartes' sense, is to withhold judgment whether it is true or false.

The empiricists rejected Descartes' claim that a proposition had to be known with certainty to count as knowledge.

Russell Hunt thinks it is a good thing that the rise in plagiarism is challenging the validity of the traditional grading system.