Deck 10: The Skeptic: David Hume

Question 1

Locke held that all ideas originate in sensation and religion.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

A tabula rasa  is a clean slate.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The correspondence theory of truth is favored by rationalists.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Locke was profoundly affected by conversations he had in 1670.

Question 5

Locke called for philosophers to focus their attention inward.

Question 6

Sextus Empiricus devised a credulous grammar.

Question 7

Empiricists believe that knowledge comes from sense data.

Question 8

Locke was educated as a theologian.

Question 9

Locke was the first of the British empiricists.

Question 10

The three founding philosophers of empiricism were all French.

Question 11

Locke decided to study the origins of ideas to understand the process of acquiring knowledge.

Question 12

A skeptic demands undoubtable evidence before accepting any knowledge claim as true.

Question 13

Locke believed in innate ideas.

Question 14

Descartes believed in innate ideas.

Question 15

The correspondence theory of truth is also known as the copy theory.

Question 16

Bertrand Russell held that skepticism was logically impossible.

Question 17

Empiricism is the belief that all knowledge is derived from reason.

Question 18

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature of knowledge.

Question 19

Locke held that we can think about things before we have experienced them.

Question 20

Doubting Thomas refused to believe that Jesus had risen from the dead until he could see this for himself.

Question 21

What did Hume say appeared "nauseous" to him?

A) Rationalism
B) Economics
C) Religion
D) Law

Question 22

Descartes pursued the logical consequences of his premises.

Question 23

Berkeley was

A) a rationalist
B) a materialist
C) an idealist
D) a Catholic

Question 24

Where was Hume born?

A) St. Andrews
B) Kirkcaldy
C) Edinburgh
D) Glasgow

Question 25

Who held that all qualities were secondary qualities?

A) Berkeley
B) Locke
C) Descartes
D) Aristotle

Question 26

Locke held that Cartesian-type reasoning was dangerous.

Question 27

At what age did Hume write the Treatise ?

A) 18
B) 27
C) 32
D) 38

Question 28

Locke held that substance was a complex idea.

Question 29

Size is a primary quality.

Question 30

Which is not a secondary quality?

A) Color
B) Location
C) Taste
D) Texture

Question 31

Thomas Reid contrasted the plain man with the philosopher.

Question 32

What is a fiction, according to idealism?

A) The material world
B) Mental states
C) Ideas
D) Trees

Question 33

Who believed that to be is to be perceived?

A) Locke
B) Aristotle
C) Descartes
D) Berkeley

Question 34

Color is a primary quality.

Question 35

Who held that "the refutation of skepticism is the whole business of philosophy"?

A) Rhees
B) Russell
C) Hume
D) Smith

Question 36

How many copies of the Treatise did Hume received as part of his payment for it?

A) 3
B) 6
C) 9
D) 12

Question 37

Locke pursued the logical consequences of his premises.

Question 38

Locke claims that we have no idea of substance.

Question 39

Epistemological dualism is the view that there is a knower and a known.

Question 40

Sound is a primary quality.

Question 41

Who claimed that the skeptic wishes to cure the "rashness of the dogmatists"?

A) Hume
B) Berkeley
C) Aristotle
D) Empiricus

Question 42

Does the external world exist, according to Berkeley? If not, how can he account for our common-sense view that it does? If it does, in what form does it exist? That is, is it a materialist world, or not? How can a world exist without being made of material "stuff"?

Question 43

Who argued that reason's function was to rule the appetites and emotions?

A) Plato
B) Hume
C) Smith
D) Empiricus

Question 44

Do you believe that Hume is more likely to agree with the philosophy of Plato, or with the philosophy of Epicurus? Explain your answer, outlining the views of all three philosophers as you do so.

Question 45

Hume's view of the self is similar to that of a

A) Catholic
B) Cartesian
C) Buddhist
D) Baptist

Question 46

Who explicitly wrote that skepticism was psychologically impossible?

A) Reid
B) Russell
C) Hume
D) Descartes

Question 47

If one accepts Hume's account of the degree to which we have knowledge of causation, is science possible? Explain your view fully.

Question 48

Who challenged Locke's copy theory of truth by pointing out that the so-called objects Locke thought ideas correspond to lacked any fixed nature?

A) Descartes
B) Russell
C) Hume
D) Berkeley

Question 49

Who famously visited Hume as he was dying?

A) St. David
B) Boswell
C) Earl of Hertford
D) Berkeley

Question 50

What can meaningful ideas be traced back to, according to the empirical criterion of meaning?

A) Impressions
B) Material objects
C) Innate ideas
D) Habits

Question 51

Where, for Hume, do the ideas of causality and necessity come from?

A) Impressions
B) The mind
C) Science
D) God

Question 52

Who held that reason was the ground of all knowledge?

A) Berkeley
B) Locke
C) Hume
D) Descartes

Question 53

In what way might Berkeley's idealism support the view that God must exist? Does Berkeley's idealism necessarily support this view, or could one accept it and still be an atheist? Explain your answers to these questions.

Question 54

Who referred to Hume's work as a "scandal"?

A) Berkeley
B) Smith
C) Kant
D) Boswell

Question 55

The Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is Hume's most

A) irrelevant work
B) religious work
C) irreverent work
D) Catholic work

Question 56

Who held that reason alone could never provide a motive for any action?

A) Kant
B) Plato
C) Aristotle
D) Hume

Question 57

Who developed the bundle theory of the self?

A) Berkeley
B) Locke
C) Hume
D) Boswell

Question 58

Who was famously faced with the egocentric predicament?

A) Hume
B) Descartes
C) Berkeley
D) Locke

Question 59

What did Hume once propose should be taxed?

A) Health
B) Chairs
C) Obesity
D) Philosophy

Question 60

What is a "self," according to Hume? What are his arguments for this view of the self? What philosophical position do they rest on? Do you agree with them? Why or why not?

Question 61

Do you agree with Locke's distinction between primary and secondary qualities? Why or why not? What are two possible objections to this distinction? Do you agree with them or not?

Question 62

Can an empiricist coherently believe in God? Explain your answer.

Question 63

Why did Locke reject Descartes' epistemology? Do you believe that this rejection was justified or not? Explain your answer.