Exam 3: Plato the Divided Line and the Cave

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 ..."

Aristotle tells us that when we talk about "why the world is as it is" we are in the domain of normative ethics.

Explain the difference between a Monad and a compound substance. Describe some of the attributes of each.

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

Hawley says that "Scientific skepticism, as I shall understand it here, is the view that there are cases where the involvement of a claim about an unobservable entity in an empirically successful scientific theory provides reason to think that the claim is true."

Explain what Cavendish means when she claims that there are some objects which are not perceptible by sense perception, yet they are subject to our rational perception.

According to Plato, the areas above the divided line are where our minds are capable of understanding the world of ideas, and we are, therefore, able to grasp ...

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 ..."

Why does Plato say that the released prisoner would have a difficult time convincing the prisoners who are still in the cave about the outside world?

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 representational realism.

Shepherd argues that "Although we are only conscious of our sensations, yet our whole combined sensations include in their relations the necessity, that there should be, and the proof that there are, ..."

According to Kant, "The belief in the possible certainty in regard to objects of outer sense is called authoritarianism."

Plato says that "Our argument shows that the power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already."

For Aristotle, what distinguishes theoretical knowledge from practical knowledge? Provide some examples of each.

Aristotle tells us that when we talk about "why the world is as it is" we are in the domain of ...

Berkeley argues that in order to be convinced of his claims, "the reader need only reflect, and try to separate in his own thoughts the extension of a sensible thing from its intension."

Locke says, "For in bare naked perception, the mind is, for the most part, only active; and what it perceives, it cannot avoid perceiving."

Why does Aristotle criticize those people who demand that a reason shall be given for everything; in other words, "they seek a reason for things for which no reason can be given; for the starting-point of demonstration is not demonstration"?

According to MacDonald, "Engels makes one mistake in this connection, I think, which is also made by many other philosophers. He confuses what common sense knows with what it ..."

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