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PHIL EXAM FINAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSArgument (define) - Answers -An argument is a collection of statements, one or more of
which are claimed to provide support for, or reasons to believe, one of the other
statements.
What relation does Searle claim obtains between mental events and physical events?
- Mental events are realized in physical brain processes
- Mental events exist independent of physical events
- Messages from the brain are sent through the pineal gland to the mind - Answers -
MENTAL EVENTS ARE REALIZED IN PHYSICAL BRAIN PROCESSES
Which of the following accounts is not a version of moral anti-realism?
Emotivism
- Subjectivism
- Utilitarianism
- Relativism - Answers -UTILITARIANISM
All of the following are central to Mill's theory of utilitarianism except for which?
- Some kinds of pleasures are qualitatively superior to other kinds of pleasures
- Actions are right to the extent that they promote our own personal happiness
- A person's motives have nothing to do with the morality of actions
The goal of life is happiness - Answers -ACTIONS ARE RIGHT TO THE EXTENT THAT
THEY PROMOTE OUR OWN PERSONAL HAPPINESS
Does Aristotle think that happiness is attained as a result of performing certain activities,
or is it found in performing those activities?
- As a result of performing activities
- In performing activities - Answers -IN PERFORMING ACTIVITIES
What is Aristotle referring to when he speaks of "an acquired excellence of the soul"?
- Wisdom
- Continence
- Prudence
- Virtue - Answers –VIRTUE
An argument is valid if and only if the conclusion must be true whenever the premises
are true (true or false) - Answers -true
Every sound argument has a true conclusion (true or false) - Answers -true
Every argument with a true conclusion is sound (true or false) - Answers -false
If an argument has all true premises and a true conclusion, then the argument must be
valid (true or false) - Answers -false
, If an argument has all true premise sand a false conclusion, then the argument must be
invalid (true or false) - Answers -true
President Biden was in Camden, N.J. at 2:00p.m. (central time) yesterday. It follows that
Biden was not in Minnesota at all yesterday (valid or invalid) - Answers -invalid
Tom got into a car accident yesterday,and broke both his legs. Thus, Tom won't win the
Twin Cities marathon today (valid or invalid) - Answers -invalid
Every chemistry major must take one year of organic chemistry. Max is a chemistry
major, so he must take a year of organic chemistry (valid or invalid) - Answers -valid
Drinking coffee stunts your growth. Max's growth is stunted. Therefore, Max drinks
coffee (valid or invalid) - Answers -invalid
All life requires water. There is no water on the planet Venus. Therefore, no life exists
on Venus (valid or invalid) - Answers -valid
Traffic levels decrease significantly on weekends. Moreover since most people don't
work on weekends it is easier for friends and family members to attend. As such the
university of st thomas holds its graduation ceremonies on a saturday (argument,
explanation or neither) - Answers -explanation
Charlie was pretty happy all week but then he started moping around like he lost his dog
or something. I think it must be because he just got word that his grades weren't good
enough to get into med school (inductive or deductive) - Answers -inductive
If there is no rain soon the crops will die. If the crops die there will be no food for the
coming winter. So provided that it doesn't rain soon there will be a food shortage this
coming winter:
Modus ponens
Modus tollens
Disjunctive syllogism
Hypothetical syllogism
Dilemma - Answers -hypothetical syllogism
Either there's evidence of women having supernatural powers or there is no such
evidence. If there's no such evidence then we have no reason to believe in witches. If
there is evidence then their powers are not really supernatural. So either there's no
reason to believe in witches or there's nothing supernatural about them.
Modus ponens
Modus tollens
Disjunctive syllogism
Hypothetical syllogism
Dilemma - Answers -dilemma
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