PHIL101 Graded Exam #1
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Topic 3: Epistemology: The Search for Knowledge
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Which of the following branches of philosophy does NOT involve questions related to
values?
Select one:
a. Moral
b. Metaphysics c. Social
d. Political
In philosophy, what is an argument?
Select one:
a. a factual disagreement between people b. giving reasons for a belief
c. a shouting match
d. any verbal attempt to persuade
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Thinking that a person's position is frightening because the person himself is frightening
would be an obvious mistake in reasoning. This is an example of the fallacy of _____.
Select one:
a. argumentum
ad
hominem
b. switching the burden of proof
c. false dilemma
d. reductio
ad
absurdum
The fallacy of _____ amounts to transferring the qualities of a spokesperson to his or her
insights, arguments, beliefs, or positions.
Select one:
a. red herring
b. begging the question
c. straw man
d. argumentum
ad
hominem
Thales, Anaximenes, and Anaximander are collectively known as the _____.
Select one:
a. Atomists
b. Pythagoreans
c. Milesians d. Particle Theorists
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Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and fundamental
properties of _____.
Select one:
a. knowledge
b. god
c. beauty
d. being Which is a theme common to all the pre-Socratics?
Select one:
a. Nothing changes.
b. Everything is made of particles.
c. The experienced world is a manifestation of a more fundamental underlying reality.
d. True reality is unknowable.
According to Empedocles, which of the following is the cause of change?
Select one:
a. nous
b. condensation and rarefaction
c. logos
d. love and strife
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The most famous dialogue of Plato is _____, from the so-called middle period of Plato's
writings, during which Plato reached the peak of his genius.
Select one:
a. the Republic
b. the Apology
c. the Meno
d. the Gorgias
What did Socrates hope to achieve by practicing the Socratic method?
Select one:
a. He hoped to show that knowledge is impossible.
b. He wanted to show that a skillful debater could win any side of any argument.
c. He wanted to display the fact that he was indeed the wisest man in all of Greece.
d. He wanted to detect misconceptions and reveal them by asking the right questions.
When the Delphi Oracle pronounced Socrates to be the wisest of people, Socrates
thought the pronouncement referred to the fact that he:
Select one:
a. was aware of the ignorance of most other philosophers.
b. was aware of his ignorance. c. was aware of everything and nothing.
d. never wrote anything.
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Which of the following is NOT one of the ten basic categories Aristotle used to describe
the ways in which humans think about things?
Select one:
a. posture
b. activity
c. quality
d. weight What did Aristotle say about change?
Select one:
a. It is an illusion.
b. It is a movement from potentiality to actuality. c. It is a movement from actuality to potentiality.
d. It doesn't require God.
Which of the following views did Aquinas accept?
Select one:
a. A physical thing is composed of matter and form. b. All reality is material.
c. Forms exist independently of matter.
d. Nothing changes.
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What did Aquinas maintain concerning the soul?
Select one:
a. It is the passive potentiality of the body.
b. It is finite and destructible. c. It cannot exist without the body.
d. It is a direct creation of God.
According to Rene Descartes, "clarity and distinctness" was a mark of _____.
Select one:
a. God b. goodness
c. truth
d. rationality
Which of the following statements would Thomas Hobbes have accepted?
Select one:
a. The mind and the body are separate and distinct substances.
b. All psychological states derive ultimately from perception. c. Reasoning is not based on perceptions.
d. To be is to be perceived.
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According to Anne Conway, God _____.
Select one:
a. is part mentaland part physical
b. is in time and space and subject to change
c. created the universe in a single creation event
d. is an eternal creator What did George Berkeley mean about such things as tables and chairs when he denied
the existence of matter?
Select one:
a. There are no unperceived tables and chairs. b. There are no tables and chairs.
c. Tables and chairs are really just swarms of particles in motion.
d. Everything, including tables and chairs, is an illusion.
The most famous monadology
in the history of philosophy is that of _____.
Select one:
a. Thomas Hobbes
b. Baron von Leibniz
c. Benedictus de Spinoza d. Gottfried Wilhelm
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