Exam 10: The Skeptic: David Hume

Size is a primary quality.

Locke believed in innate ideas.

At what age did Hume write the Treatise ?

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

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

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

Who believed that to be is to be perceived?

Thomas Reid contrasted the plain man with the philosopher.

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

Descartes pursued the logical consequences of his premises.

The three founding philosophers of empiricism were all French.

Locke called for philosophers to focus their attention inward.

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

What is a fiction, according to idealism?

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?

Locke held that Cartesian-type reasoning was dangerous.

Locke pursued the logical consequences of his premises.

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

Who held that all qualities were secondary qualities?

The correspondence theory of truth is favored by rationalists.