phil final study exam questions & answers 2024/2025
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phil final study exam questions & answers 2024/2025
in the lecture professor gave his opinion that is better to understand coherence as justification for beliefs and not as the definition of truth - ANSWERStrue
theology is one of the main areas of phil - ANSWERSfalse
aristotle believes t...
phil final study exam questions &
answers 2024/2025
in the lecture professor gave his opinion that is better to understand coherence as justification for beliefs
and not as the definition of truth - ANSWERStrue
theology is one of the main areas of phil - ANSWERSfalse
aristotle believes that pleasure is the by product of a happy life - ANSWERStrue
when did the human race first appear on earth - ANSWERS40,000,000
my belief is true if i sincerely believe it is true - ANSWERSfalse
buddha was devoutly religious and encouraged his followers to make sacrifices to the hindu gods -
ANSWERSfalse
coercion interferes with our freedom because we don't want to be put in the situation in which we feel
threatened - ANSWERStrue
plato and aristotle revise ancient concepts of the divine by making god all good and powerful -
ANSWERSfalse
who was the first person to ask: what is everything made of - ANSWERSthales
Confucius lived during what years? - ANSWERS551-479 BCE
to some extent we can measure echo chambers by tracking social media usage - ANSWERStrue
, lucretius believes that it is irrational to fear death because being dead isn't painful - ANSWERSfalse
the weakness of the evidence for the flat earth theory is obvious only after doing a little research -
ANSWERStrue
one argument against determinism is that the better we know people, the easier it is to predict what
they will do - ANSWERSfalse
the airport example shows that when it is more important to be right about something the amount of
evidence you need for knowledge increases - ANSWERStrue
when facing a valid argument with a conclusion you beleive to be false the rational thing to do is look for
a premise that may be false - ANSWERStrue
the lowest sort of person seeks what - ANSWERSpleasures of the body —food & sex
one of the premises in the argument as presented in the slideshow was unnecessary suffering exsists -
ANSWERStrue
although no experiment or test can conflusovielt prove a philispjixla theory right or wrong, it is still
necessary to carefully examine philosophical theories to see if they are consistent - ANSWERStrue
the pool player example shows that events that are really determined may seem free and unpredictable
due to our ignorance or inexperience - ANSWERStrue
empiricism is an epistemological theory that stresses experience as the source of human knowledge -
ANSWERStrue
lucretius praises epicures for freeing mankind from the crushing weight of science - ANSWERSfalse
anti-vaxxers beleive that vaccines are not safe and effective - ANSWERStrue
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