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In Women's Ways of Knowing, the authors reported that the women they were
interviewing sometimes said, "You're asking the wrong question!" They interpreted this
to mean that these women were in which of Perry's stages of cognitive development? -
️️Constructed Knowledge
What J.L. Mackie call...
Philosophy Final JCJC
In Women's Ways of Knowing, the authors reported that the women they were
interviewing sometimes said, "You're asking the wrong question!" They interpreted this
to mean that these women were in which of Perry's stages of cognitive development? -
✔️✔️Constructed Knowledge
What J.L. Mackie called "the problem of evil" argues against God's existence states
_______. - ✔️✔️a perfect being would not allow evil or God is omnipotent; God is
wholly good; and yet evil exists
Locke believed that rationalism is false because - ✔️✔️he believed it was always
possible to show that knowledge arises from
experience
"Independent reality" means - ✔️✔️that which is true regardless of what we think about
it
Bertrand Russell said that the nature of reality is difficult to arrive at because - ✔️✔️all
that we directly know are our sensations
George Berkeley denied the existence of matter because - ✔️✔️he thought that there
is nothing non-mental
Empiricism is the position that - ✔️✔️reality can be perceived through the senses
Leibniz believed that the human mind - ✔️✔️has innate tendencies
According to Locke, qualities of objects that produce sensations in people are
considered to be _______. - ✔️✔️secondary qualities
Berkeley's epistemology of subjective idealism is represented by which Latin phrase? -
✔️✔️esse est percipi
David Hume used the word "impressions" to mean _______. - ✔️✔️what we directly
experience through the senses or emotions
Locke's account of human understanding is missing - ✔️✔️a story about how the mind
transforms experience into concepts
Unlike Berkeley, Leibniz believed - ✔️✔️in a reality independent of our minds
, Which philosopher's skepticism led him to conclude that there is no sound reason to
believe in the principles of cause and effect - ✔️✔️David Hume
The authors of Women's Ways of Knowing added an earlier stage to Perry's four stages
of cognitive development. This stage is called _______. - ✔️✔️silence
Ludwig Feuerbach thought that we "create" God because we _______. - ✔️✔️have an
idealized sense of self that we project
What does it mean to say a religion may not be theistic? - ✔️✔️It may not posit any
gods
Keiji Nishitani thought that the main function of religion is to - ✔️✔️provide meaning to
life
Hinduism considers ultimate reality to be _______. - ✔️✔️unknowable
Buddhism is focused on the goal of - ✔️✔️being free of one's desires
Daoism is focused on the goal of - ✔️✔️coming into harmony with reality
Judaism is based primarily on - ✔️✔️monotheism
The key assumption of Saint Anselm's ontological argument for God's existence is that -
✔️✔️if God exists, he exists necessarily
Aquinas' argument from gradations of goodness concludes that - ✔️✔️there must be a
perfect being
For philosophers and theologians in the________ tradition, free will is the most
important thing in understanding why evil exists. - ✔️✔️Theodicy
The main problem with ethical subjectivism is that ____ - ✔️✔️it cannot explain how
people can be wrong
Pascal's "wager" is based mainly on the supposition that _______. - ✔️✔️one cannot
lose anything of value by wagering on God's existence
In "The Ethics of Belief," W.K. Clifford argues that _______. - ✔️✔️it is always wrong to
believe anything under insufficient evidence
The term ethics comes from the notion of - ✔️✔️a way of life
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