Exam 10: The Skeptic: David Hume

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

Where was Hume born?

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?

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

Which is not a secondary quality?

Who was famously faced with the egocentric predicament?

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

Sextus Empiricus devised a credulous grammar.

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

Locke was educated as a theologian.

A tabula rasa  is a clean slate.

Locke was profoundly affected by conversations he had in 1670.

The Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is Hume's most

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

Color is a primary quality.

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

Empiricists believe that knowledge comes from sense data.

Locke was the first of the British empiricists.

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

What did Hume say appeared "nauseous" to him?