Exam 3: Plato the Divided Line and the Cave

Why does Kant say that human reason "falls into confusion and contradictions," because the principles it employs transcends the limits of experience?

Berkeley claims that we perceive nothing besides ...

Kant argues that the claims of metaphysics "established by a kind of physiology of the human understanding" based on Locke's ideas which was built on "common experience" ultimately resulted in metaphysics falling "back into the antiquated and rotten constitution of dogmatism."

Locke says, if you "Take away the sensation, let not the eyes see light or colors, nor the ears hear sounds; let the palate not taste, nor the nose smell, and all colors, tastes, odors, and sounds, as they are such particular ideas," will vanish and cease.

For Shepherd, the readiness to appear when called for by our sense organs and the mind, means that a third set of objects is needed in order to determine those perceptions which are neither the organs of sense nor mind in general, results in the idea of the ...

According to Locke, "The particular bulk, number, figure, and motion of the parts of, for example, fire or snow, are really in them, whether anyone's senses perceive them or no: and therefore they may be called abstract qualities.

Which of the following is not one of Aristotle's "four causes"?

Locke says, if you "Take away the sensation, let not the eyes see light or colors, nor the ears hear sounds; let the palate not taste, nor the nose smell, and all colors, tastes, odors, and sounds, as they are such particular ideas," will ...

According to Cavendish, every creature has a double perception, veridical and transitive, yet each creature does not have an infinite perception.

Leibniz says, "Thus it may be said that a Monad can only come into being or come to an end all at once; that is to say, it can come into being only by compactness and come to an end only by completeness."

Shepherd concludes by saying, "and thus it may be seen that the whole of our sensations includes our knowledge of continuous existences, which are unperceived."

Do you agree with Plato's divide line distinctions? Explain your answer.

According to Plato, how does reason and understanding differ from belief and opinion?

For Arendt, "it is decisive that the experience of the eternal, in contradistinction to that of the immortal, has no correspondence with and cannot be transformed into any ________ whatsoever."

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

Heidegger says, "We are not interrogating this being or that being, nor all beings, each in turn; instead, we are asking from the start about the whole of what is."

Locke argues that we are not born with innate ideas, that our minds are like ...

For Shepherd, every thought, notion, idea, feeling, and perception, which distinguishes a sentient nature from unconscious existence, may be considered generally as ...

For Plato, shadows and reflections in water and in solid, smooth, and polished bodies and the like are called ...

According to Kant, "The ideality of outer appearances, and the doctrine of this ideality is called ..."