Exam 3: Plato the Divided Line and the Cave

Shepherd claims that the arguments of Berkeley and Hume have resulted in the non-existence of mind as well as matter, thus they are a source of ...

Berkeley claims that we perceive nothing besides our own ideas or sensations.

According to Plato, belief and imagination belong to the ...

For Heidegger the first question "embraces all that is, and that means not only what is now present at hand in the broadest sense, but also what has previously been and what will be in the future. The domain of this question is limited only by what simply is not and never is: by Everything.

MacDonald says, "I wish to point out here is that Engels' assertion depends on his attempt to use a certain analogy, viz., that between ordinary propositions and ..."

Describe in detail Aristotle's four causes. Do you think that Aristotle has delineated too many causes, or too few? Explain your answer.

According to Locke, how do all our ideas originate?

Explain the importance of MacDonald's claim that that it is an "accepted fact that all empirical propositions, i.e., all propositions which give information about the sensible world can be significantly denied."

Berkeley says that "esse est percepi," which means ...

What does "empirically adequate" mean? Provide some examples.

Aristotle claims that we do not know a truth without its ...

Berkeley claims anyone who says that "there is nothing easier than for me to imagine trees, for instance, in a park, or books existing in a closet, and nobody by to perceive them," is deluded.

Hawley explains that "In order to investigate the relevance of science to metaphysics, I will assume that metaphysics is possible."

What does Plato mean when he says that the point of the allegory is that the prisoner's journey from inside the cave to the world outside the cave can be interpreted as the ascent of the soul into the intellectual world?

Arendt says, "This is immortality: to move along a rectilinear line in a universe where everything, if it moves at all, moves in a cyclical order."

Locke tells us, "Whatsoever the mind perceives in itself, or is the immediate object of perception, thought, or understanding, that I call ..."

Arendt claims that human mortality and individual life arise out of ______________.

Explain what Heidegger means when he says, "All essential questioning in philosophy necessarily remains untimely, and this is because philosophy either projects far beyond its own time or else binds its time back to this time's earlier and inceptive past."

Aristotle says, "A principle which everyone must have who understands anything that is, is not a hypothesis; and that which every one must know who knows anything. Such a principle is the most certain of all. It is this: That the same attribute cannot at the same time belong and not belong to the same subject and in the same respect."

According to Kant, why is the inference from a given effect to a determinate cause always uncertain? Do you agree with Kant? Explain your answer.