Question 1

____________________ developed the view that is now known as transcendental idealism.

Accepted Answer

Kant

Question 2

Who claimed that the claim that the world must conform to the mind was a kind of Copernican revolution in knowledge?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 3

Locke was an empiricist.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 4

Carried to an extreme Berkeley's thinking can become

Accepted Answer

A)   Rationalism
B)   Atheism
C)   Solipsism
D)   Materialism

Question 5

Who did not rely on God to save him from skepticism?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 6

Empiricism is the view that ____________________ can be obtained only through sense experience.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Empiricism is the view that ____________________ can...

Question 7

____________________ is the view that only I exist and that everything else is just a creation of my subjective consciousness.

Accepted Answer

The answer of ____________________ is the view that only I...

Question 8

____________________ ____________________ are ideas that are present in the mind from birth.

Accepted Answer

The answer of ____________________ ____________________ are ideas that are present...

Question 9

What, according to Shankara, was real?

Accepted Answer

A)   The self
B)   The world
C)   Ultimate reality
D)   Ultimate knowledge

Question 10

Shankara developed the idea of "sublation".

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

How might the event described in Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" be used to undermine empiricism?

Accepted Answer

The answer of How might the event described in Bierce's...

Question 12

According to Kant, statements that give us information about the world are

Accepted Answer

A)   Synthetic statements
B)   Analytic statements
C)   Skeptical statements
D)   Agnostic statements

Question 13

In what way does Descartes' rationalism require the existence of a benevolent God? Do you believe that Descartes has successfully established the existence of this God, or do you think that his arguments for God's existence are circular, resting as they do on his "clear and distinct" perceptions whose veridicality seems to be given by God's benevolence?

Accepted Answer

The answer of In what way does Descartes' rationalism require...

Question 14

Who offered a view now termed transcendental idealism?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 15

Knowledge that does not depend on sense experience is ____________________ ____________________ knowledge.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Knowledge that does not depend on sense...

Question 16

Berkeley was an empiricist.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Berkeley was an atheist

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

The critical realists rejected Locke's epistemology.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

Rationalism is the view that

Accepted Answer

A)   All knowledge is acquired through reason
B)   No knowledge can be acquired through the senses
C)   Reason can arrive at some knowledge
D)   Reason can arrive at all knowledge

Question 20

Who was a Romantic philosopher?

Accepted Answer

A)   Kant
B)   Copernicus
C)   Hegel
D)   Humboldt

Exam 5: The Sources of Knowledge

____________________ developed the view that is now known as transcendental idealism.

Who claimed that the claim that the world must conform to the mind was a kind of Copernican revolution in knowledge?

Locke was an empiricist.

Carried to an extreme Berkeley's thinking can become

Who did not rely on God to save him from skepticism?

Empiricism is the view that ____________________ can be obtained only through sense experience.

____________________ is the view that only I exist and that everything else is just a creation of my subjective consciousness.

are ideas that are present in the mind from birth.

What, according to Shankara, was real?

Shankara developed the idea of "sublation".

How might the event described in Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" be used to undermine empiricism?

According to Kant, statements that give us information about the world are

Who offered a view now termed transcendental idealism?

Knowledge that does not depend on sense experience is knowledge.

Berkeley was an empiricist.

Berkeley was an atheist

The critical realists rejected Locke's epistemology.

Rationalism is the view that

Who was a Romantic philosopher?