Philosophy Final - Questions And Actual Answers

Philosophy Final - Questions And Actual Answers

Berkeley believed that the only truly existent things are the mind and God.
Right Ans - True

In Hume's view, causation is an example of knowledge as "a matter of fact."
Right Ans - False

Locke believed that there is no such thing as substance. Right Ans - False

John Locke held the view that we know everything from experience. Right
Ans - True

Descartes believed that beliefs can be justified by experience alone Right
Ans - False

Hume was a __________. Right Ans - Skeptic

Descartes' "evil deceiver" is employed to show that __________. Right Ans -
almost anything can be doubted

Descartes applied a philosophical technique of __________. Right Ans -
methodological doubt

Before he introduces the evil deceiver, Descartes' dream argument has shown
that __________. Right Ans - I can doubt all of the information of my senses

An idealist is unlikely also to be __________. Right Ans - a materialist

"I think, therefore I am" serves Descartes as __________. Right Ans - a truth he
cannot doubt

Descartes writes: "Let us take, for example, this piece of wax: it has been taken
quite freshly from the hive, and it has not yet lost the sweetness of the honey
it contains; it still retains somewhat the odor of the flowers from which it has
been culled; its color, its figure, its size are apparent; it is hard, cold, easily
handled, and if you strike it with the finger, it will emit a sound. Finally all the
things which are requisite to cause us distinctly to recognize a body, are met
with in it. But notice that while I speak and approach the fire what remained

, of the taste is exhaled, the smell evaporates, the color alters, the figure is
destroyed, the size increases, it becomes liquid, it heats, scarcely can one
handle it, and when one strikes it, no sound is emitted. Does the same wax
remain after this change?"
According to Descartes, "Does the same wax remain after this change?"
Right Ans - Yes

Descartes uses the wax argument to prove that __________. Right Ans - we
know mental things with greater clarity and distinctness than material things

Descartes' wax argument illuminates the concept of __________. Right Ans -
Substance

Prior to the wax argument, Descartes uses his "dream argument" to show that
__________. Right Ans - almost anything can be doubted

Descartes doubted things in what two ways? Right Ans - the dream
argument and the "evil genius" argument

Relativism is the thesis that there is no single correct view of reality, no single
truth. Right Ans - True

Richard Rorty rejects the idea that the world is like a text and pursues a
foundational definition of truth Right Ans - False

Phenomenology is a relativistic doctrine that accepts the historicity of human
experience Right Ans - False

Schopenhauer argued that the world of our senses is the "true" world.
Right Ans - False

Dialectic is a logic developed by Hegel in which different forms of thought or
philosophies are arranged according to increasing scope or sophistication.
Right Ans - True

. Kant believed in only one set of rational rules that constitutes our experience,
therefore rejecting relativism Right Ans - True