PHIL101 Graded Exam 1
Epistemology: The Search for Knowledge
Question 1
Which of the following branches of philosophy does NOT involve questions related to values?
Select one:
a.Moral
c.Social
d.Political
Correct Answer Question 1
Question 2
In philosophy, what is an argument?
Select one:
a.a factual disagreement between people
b.giving reasons for a belief
c.a shouting match
d.any verbal attempt to persuade
Correct Answer Question 2
b.giving reasons for a belief
Question 3
What fallacy is it when an argument assumes only two options when in fact there are more?
Select one:
a.straw man
b.false dilemma
c.begging the question
d.appeal to emotion
Correct Answer Question 3
b.false dilemma
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Question 4
The fallacy of _____ amounts to transferring the qualities of a spokesperson to his or her insights, arguments, beliefs, or positions.
Select one:
b.begging the question
c.straw man
d.argumentum ad hominem
Question 5
Epistemology is the branch that explores the sources, nature, limits, and criteria of _____.
Select one:
a.knowledge
b.being
c.good and bad
d.politics
Question 6
Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and fundamental properties of _____.
Select one:
a.knowledge
b.god
c.beauty
d.being
Question 7
What is reality according to a follower of Parmenides?
Select one:
a.one and changing
b.one and unchanging
c.many and changing
d.many and unchanging
Question 8
Which is a theme common to all the pre-Socratics?
Select one:
a.Nothing changes.
b.Everything is made of particles.
c.The experienced world is a manifestation of a more fundamental underlying reality.
d.True reality is unknowable.
Question 9
The most famous dialogue of Plato is _____, from the so-called middle period of Plato’s writings, during which Plato reached the peak of his genius.
Select one:
a.the Republic
b.the Apology
c.the Meno
d.the Gorgias
Question 10
Plato’s three famous theories are as follows:
Select one:
a.the Theory of Forms, the Theory of Knowledge, and the Theory of the Oracle.
b.the Theory of Fire and Becoming, the Tunnel Theory, and the Theory of Knowledge.
c.the Theory of Becoming, the Theory of Relativity, and the Theory of the Absolute Truth.
d.the Theory of Knowledge, the Theory of Love and Becoming, and the Theory of Forms.
Question 11
When the Delphi Oracle pronounced Socrates to be the wisest of people, Socrates thought the pronouncement referred to the fact that he:
Select one:
a.was aware of the ignorance of most other philosophers.
b.was aware of his ignorance.
c.was aware of everything and nothing.
d.never wrote anything.
Question 12
Aristotle believed that humans have _____ souls, which form a single unity.
Select one:
a.one
b.two
c.three
d.four
Question 13
What did Aristotle say about change?
Select one:
a.It is an illusion.
b.It is a movement from potentiality to actuality.
c.It is a movement from actuality to potentiality.
d.It doesn’t require God.
Question 14
Those who think that universal terms like “man” denote something that exists outside the mind subscribe to _____.
Select one:
a.conceptualism
b.realism
c.druidism
d.abstractionism
Question 15
Which of the following views of Aristotle did Aquinas disagree with?
Select one:
a.Physical things are always a blend of matter plus form.
b.The essence of a thing is the same as its existence.
c.One and the same form (universal) can be in more than one physical thing (particular).
d.Change is explained in terms of four causes: the formal, the material, the efficient, and the final.
Question 16
According to Rene Descartes, “clarity and distinctness” was a mark of _____.
Select one:
a.God
b.goodness
c.truth
d.rationality
Question 17
Some of Descartes’s followers proposed a solution to the problem of how the immaterial mind interacts with the material body, given that the body is supposed to be subject to physical laws. The solution is called _____.
Select one:
a.parallelism
b.Epicureanism
c.determinism
d.druidism
Question 18
According to Anne Conway, God _____.
Select one:
a.is part mentaland part physical
b.is in time and space and subject to change
c.created the universe in a single creation event
d.is an eternal creator
Question 19
Question text
What did George Berkeley mean about such things as tables and chairs when he denied the existence of matter?
Select one:
a.There are no unperceived tables and chairs.
b.There are no tables and chairs.
c.Tables and chairs are really just swarms of particles in motion.
d.Everything, including tables and chairs, is an illusion.
Question 20
The most famous monadology in the history of philosophy is that of _____.
Select one:
a.Thomas Hobbes
b.Baron von Leibniz
c.Benedictus de Spinoza
d.Gottfried Wilhelm
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