1. Not investigating whether or not one's beliefs about the physical universe make sense in connection with their beliefs about their gods fails which criterion of good thinking/philosophy/science? a. consistency b. coherency c. adequacy d. applicability e. communicability b. coherency 2. Lite...
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1. Not investigating whether or not one's beliefs about
b. coherency
the physical universe make sense in connection
with their beliefs about their gods fails which
criterion of good thinking/philosophy/science?
a. consistency b. coherency
c. adequacy d. applicability
e. communicability
2. Literary writing, like that of Hemingway or Steinbeck, a. mythic
explana-
in that it attempts to explain some aspect of human Revolu-
experience is an example of tion' that
a. mythic explanation b. material explanation separated
c. linguistic/rhetorical explanation d. formal 'sciences of
explana- tion the mind'
e. none of the above from phi-
losophy are
3. Mathematics, in so far as it attempts to provide
an explanation for our experiences, is an example
of
a. mythic explanation b. material explanation
c. linguistic/rhetorical explanation d. formal
explana- tion
e. none of the above
4. Modern physics, in that it attempts to provide an
explanation for our experiences, is an example
of
a. mythic explanation b. material explanation
c. linguistic/rhetorical explanation d. formal
explana- tion
e. none of the above
5. Our experience of nature is related to physics in
the same way that religion is related to
a. metaphysics b. philosophy
c. science d. theology
e. culture
6. Persons associated with the 'Psychological
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d. formal explana- tion
b. material expla- nation
d. theology
b. Jung, Freud and Adler
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a. Origin, Adler and Copernicus b. Jung, Freud and square.
Adler c. My new
c. Tertullian, de Saussure and Freud d. Galileo, Au- car is black
gustine and Bloomfield and white. d.
e. de Saussure, Copernicus and Chomsky If I love
wisdom,
7. A scientist has developed a scientific theory which
does not allow for the inclusion of new information
or data; the theory is such that it cannot account for
this new information or data. Which criterion of
good thinking/philosophy has been violated?
a. consistency b. coherency
c. adequacy d. applicability
e. communicability
8. Which of the following is true?
a. Plato and Aristotle both were rationalist b.
Plato was a rationalist and Aristotle was an
empiricist
c. Plato was an empiricist and Aristotle was a
ratio- nalist d. Plato and Aristotle both were
empiricists
e. none of the above
9. For which type of explanation are consistency
and coherency NOT essential criteria?
a. mythic b. material
c. linguistic/rhetorical d. formal
e. efficient
10. Socrates believed that wisdom is
a. dogmatic certainty b. knowledge about how to
be successful in public life
c. teaching others what you know d. being aware
of one's own ignorance
e. all of the above
11. Which of the following statements violates the law
of non-contradiction?
a. It is either cloudy or raining. b. This circle is
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c. adequacy
b. Plato was a ra- tionalist and Aris- totle was an em-
piricist
a. mythic
d. being aware of one's own igno- rance
b. This circle is square.
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