Question 1

Locke held that ____________________ qualities are subjective.

Accepted Answer

secondary

Question 2

What philosopher argued that hallucinations,dreams and other illusions give rise to errors that we "sublate" when we see that they are contradicted by other things our senses show us in the world around us?

Accepted Answer

A)   G. W. F. Hegel
B)   Rene Descartes
C)   Shankara
D)   John Locke C

Question 3

The British empiricists,according to your text,are

Accepted Answer

A)   John Locke, George Berkeley and David Hume
B)   Plato, Rene Descartes and John Locke
C)   Gottfried Leibniz, John Locke and David Hume
D)   Plato, Gottfried Leibniz and George Berkeley A

Question 4

The critical realists rejected Locke's epistemology.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

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

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 7

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

Accepted Answer

The answer of ____________________ developed the view that is now...

Question 8

"All triangles have three sides" is an example of a(n)____ statement.

Accepted Answer

A)   analytic
B)   synthetic
C)   a posteriori
D)   analytic a posteriori

Question 9

Critical realists hold that only ____________________ ____________________ is present in the consciousness of objects.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Critical realists hold that only ____________________ ____________________...

Question 10

Who was a Romantic philosopher?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 11

The empricist believes that

Accepted Answer

A)   the only source of genuine knowledge is sense experience.
B)   apart from experience, reason is an unreliable and inadequate route to knowledge.
C)   there is no evidence of innate ideas within the mind.
D)   all of these choices

Question 12

Leibniz held that innate ideas were tendencies.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

____________________ 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 14

What philosopher argued that scientific claims or hypotheses must be capable of being falsified through empirical observations?

Accepted Answer

A)   William Whewell
B)   John Stuart Mill
C)   Karl Popper
D)   Isaac Newton

Question 15

Who compared the mind to a blank slate?

Accepted Answer

A)   John Locke
B)   Francis Bacon
C)   Rene Descartes
D)   Thomas Aquinas

Question 16

Do you agree with Hume that we cannot know whether our ideas about reality are accurate? What assumption does Hume make when he makes this claim? Do you believe that this assumption is justified?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Do you agree with Hume that we...

Question 17

Shankara developed the idea of "sublation".

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

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 19

Personal memory,according to your textbook,is

Accepted Answer

A)   our ability to remember how to do something that we learned in the past.
B)   is our ability to remember all the facts that make up our knowledge of the world.
C)   our ability to bring into our present consciousness a representation of events that we directly experienced in the past.
D)   our ability to bring into our present consciousness a representation of imaginary beings.

Question 20

What philosopher argued that the language of each culture contains the basic categories and structures that the people of that culture use to understand and organize their experience?

Accepted Answer

A)   Immanuel Kant
B)   Wilhelm von Humboldt
C)   Francis Bacon
D)   John Stuart Mill

Exam 5: The Sources of Knowledge

Locke held that ____________________ qualities are subjective.

What philosopher argued that hallucinations,dreams and other illusions give rise to errors that we "sublate" when we see that they are contradicted by other things our senses show us in the world around us?

The British empiricists,according to your text,are

The critical realists rejected Locke's epistemology.

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

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

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

"All triangles have three sides" is an example of a(n) ____ statement.

Critical realists hold that only is present in the consciousness of objects.

Who was a Romantic philosopher?

The empricist believes that

Leibniz held that innate ideas were tendencies.

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

What philosopher argued that scientific claims or hypotheses must be capable of being falsified through empirical observations?

Who compared the mind to a blank slate?

Do you agree with Hume that we cannot know whether our ideas about reality are accurate? What assumption does Hume make when he makes this claim? Do you believe that this assumption is justified?

Shankara developed the idea of "sublation".

Personal memory,according to your textbook,is

What philosopher argued that the language of each culture contains the basic categories and structures that the people of that culture use to understand and organize their experience?