Exam 3: Plato the Divided Line and the Cave

Describe in detail the world of the prisoners in Plato's Allegory of the Cave.

For Locke, the power to produce any idea in our mind is called ...

According to Plato, the areas above the divided line are where our minds are capable of understanding the world of ideas, which is the eternal and unchanging world.

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

Describe in detail what the areas above the divided line contain.

Plato tells us 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 ...

What is "presentism"?

For Locke, the qualities of objects, such as colors, sounds, and tastes, that do not exist in the objects themselves, but only as ideas in our minds of objects are called ...

Kant says that, "Our age is the age of enlightenment, to which everything must be subjected."

According to Hawley, "Unless we can believe that there is no absolute fact of the matter as to what exists, it looks as if we shouldn't identify what exists with what is simultaneous with now. Thus presentism is incoherent."

The kind of knowledge that is based on reason, and is independent of anything existing in the world is ...

Shepherd argues that the mind is conscious of the interruptions of its sensations; therefore, the ultimate causes which exist ready and capable to renew them, must be ...

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

MacDonald says, "For we mean by such an assertion that circumstances can be described both in which it would be true and in which it would be false. This merely expresses the accepted fact that all __________ propositions, i.e., all propositions which give information about the sensible world can be significantly denied."

Explain Cavendish's argument that since sense perception is more likely to be deluded, it cannot be the ground of reason. Do you agree with Cavendish?

For Aristotle, metaphysics investigates first principles and causes.

According to Plato, the areas above the divided line are referred to as the Categorical World.

Kant argues that human reason "falls into confusion and contradictions," because the principles it employs ...

What are some of Locke's arguments against innate ideas? Do you agree with Locke? Are there any ideas that you think are innate in us?

Aristotle claims that the "substance of each thing is that which is peculiar to it, which does not belong to anything else." However, that which is such as to belong to more than one thing (what several things have in common) is called the ...