Question 1

For Aristotle, "As the faculty of sense is to sensible objects [objects of sense perception], so must intellect be related to ..."

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A)  intelligible objects. 
B)  recognizable objects. 
C)  intuited objects. 
D)  ideal form objects.

Question 2

For Locke, the mind at birth is like an empty cabinet.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Hume says "When we entertain, therefore, any suspicion that a philosophical term is employed without any meaning or idea (as is but too frequent), we need but enquire from what impression is that supposed idea derived?"

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Define and give an example of "knowledge a priori."

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Question 5

For Leibniz, the senses give us ...

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A)  universal truths. 
B)  unbiased truths. 
C)  abstract truths. 
D)  particular or individual truths.

Question 6

Descartes's application of methodological doubt requires which of the following?

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A)  It is necessary for him to demonstrate that every one of his beliefs is false. 
B)  He needs only to prove that mathematics is based on falsehoods. 
C)  He will approach the criticism of the principles on which all his former beliefs rested. 
D)  He must prove that God does not exist.

Question 7

How does Koertge define the context of discovery?

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Question 8

When Frank asks. "Let me get this clear; did you mean that I was wrong that this book is red, or that I was wrong that it seems red to me?" The Epistemologist answers that Frank is wrong when he says that it seems red to him.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Pollock says, "Every argument must proceed from some truths, and if the skeptic calls all relevant certainty into doubt at the same time then there is no way to reason with him."

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

According to MacDonald, "none of the criteria appropriate to waking life apply to dreams."

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

What is Socrates's point when he says, "Do you see, Meno, what advances he has made in his power of recollection? He did not know at first, and he does not know now, what is the side of a figure of eight feet. But then he thought that he knew, and answered confidently as if he knew, and had no difficulty. Now he has a difficulty, and neither knows nor thinks that he knows."

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Question 12

According to Astell, what are the distinguishing characteristics of understanding as given through authority?

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Question 13

Longino calls the values that are internal to the sciences, the source of the rules determining what constitutes acceptable scientific practice or scientific method, constitutive values.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Why does Koertge want to argue against the claim that "science not only is, but should be politics by other means"?

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Question 15

What does Hume mean when he says, "No object ever discovers, by the qualities which appear to the senses, either the causes which produced it, or the effects which will arise from it; nor can our reason, unassisted by experience, ever draw any inference concerning real existence and matter of fact"?

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Question 16

For Socrates,

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A)  all inquiry and all learning are subject to error. 
B)  all inquiry and all learning are fleeting images. 
C)  all inquiry and all learning are memorization. 
D)  all inquiry and all learning are recollection.

Question 17

Augustine says, "we both are, and know that we are, and delight in our being, and our knowledge of it. Moreover, in these three things no true-seeming illusion disturbs us" because ...

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A)  we do not come into contact with these by some bodily sense. 
B)  we learned these truths only by being taught by others more learned than us. 
C)  without these things we will commit sins against God. 
D)  without these things we could not be reincarnated.

Question 18

Why does Hume claim that "The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible, because it can never imply a contradiction"?

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Question 19

Explain the difference between constitutive values and contextual values.

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Question 20

Why does Hume argue that "all inferences from experience suppose, as their foundation, that the future will resemble the past"? What are the consequences of this position?

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Exam 2: Plato Knowledge Is Recollection

For Aristotle, "As the faculty of sense is to sensible objects [objects of sense perception], so must intellect be related to ..."

For Locke, the mind at birth is like an empty cabinet.

Hume says "When we entertain, therefore, any suspicion that a philosophical term is employed without any meaning or idea (as is but too frequent), we need but enquire from what impression is that supposed idea derived?"

Define and give an example of "knowledge a priori."

For Leibniz, the senses give us ...

Descartes's application of methodological doubt requires which of the following?

How does Koertge define the context of discovery?

When Frank asks. "Let me get this clear; did you mean that I was wrong that this book is red, or that I was wrong that it seems red to me?" The Epistemologist answers that Frank is wrong when he says that it seems red to him.

Pollock says, "Every argument must proceed from some truths, and if the skeptic calls all relevant certainty into doubt at the same time then there is no way to reason with him."

According to MacDonald, "none of the criteria appropriate to waking life apply to dreams."

According to Astell, what are the distinguishing characteristics of understanding as given through authority?

Longino calls the values that are internal to the sciences, the source of the rules determining what constitutes acceptable scientific practice or scientific method, constitutive values.

Why does Koertge want to argue against the claim that "science not only is, but should be politics by other means"?

For Socrates,

Augustine says, "we both are, and know that we are, and delight in our being, and our knowledge of it. Moreover, in these three things no true-seeming illusion disturbs us" because ...

Why does Hume claim that "The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible, because it can never imply a contradiction"?

Explain the difference between constitutive values and contextual values.

Why does Hume argue that "all inferences from experience suppose, as their foundation, that the future will resemble the past"? What are the consequences of this position?