Quick Quiz

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Quick Quiz

• Truth, Facts, Theories, Definitions, Skepticism

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Quick Quiz 1

• If its usefulness to us makes the sentence this
  pancake is salty! true, which theory of truth is
  correct?
• Correspondence
• Coherence
• Pragmatic
• Jesus
• Nihilist

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Quick Quiz 2

• Future contingent events (like, there will be a
  sea battle tomorrow) are a problem for which
  theory of truth?
• Correspondence
• Coherence
• Pragmatic
• Jesus
• Nihilist

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Quick Quiz 3

• When there are multiple possible explanations and
  we dont know which is correct, we call each
  candidate a
• Hypothesis
• Theory
• Belief
• Idea
• Guess

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Quick Quiz 4

• When you define a term by saying what class a
  thing belongs to and how it differs from others
  in that class, youve given
• an ostensive definition
• an operational definition
• a genus-difference definition
• a real definition
• a verbal definition

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Quick Quiz 5

• Which concepts / assertions below are messed up?
• True facts
• False facts
• All facts are known
• Facts are states of affairs
• Facts cannot be doubted

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Quick Quiz 6

• Descartes uses a method to discover what he
  really knows. He calls the method, the method of
  
• mayhem.
• clarity.
• distinction.
• doubt.
• certainty.

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Quick Quiz 7

• The Dream Argument says, I cant know if Im
  awake or dreaming, and if I cant know that, I
  cant know
• anything.
• the external world.
• 2 and 3 is 5.
• God exists.
• an evil demon exists.

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Quick Quiz 8

• Which argument does Berkeley offer as proof
  positive no one should believe in unperceived
  objects?
• The Transcendental Argument
• The Phenomenological Argument
• The Modal Argument
• The Master Argument
• The Monad Argument

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Quick Quiz 9

• Once Descartes knows he exists, he looks closely
  at his tiny piece of knowledge, I am, I exist,
  for features that might guarantee similar
  certainty elsewhere. He finds
• nothing.
• epistemic transparency
• an ontological bond of being
• clarity and distinctness
• divine sanction

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Quick Quiz 10

• What principle does Descartes use to support this
  inference?
• I have an idea of a infinite being ? An infinite
  being exists
• Indiscernibility of Identicals
• Identity of Indiscernibles
• Sufficient Reason
• Gradation
• Plenitude

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Quick Quiz 11

• We have no experience of force or power except
  will-power. Therefore, by strict reasoning, we
  should believe minds cause all motion. Who
  reasons this way?
• Descartes
• Locke
• Berkeley
• Hume
• Malebranche

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Quick Quiz 12

• Who is so confident we know we exist that he just
  jokes about it?
• Descartes
• Locke
• Berkeley
• Hume
• Malebranche

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Quick Quiz 13

• A. One billiard ball has hit another ? B. The
  other took off
• Since A can be true and B false, there is no
  necessary connection between causes and effects.
• Who reasons like this?
• Descartes
• Locke
• Berkeley
• Hume
• Malebranche

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Quick Quiz 14

• Which of these philosophers was from Ireland?
• Descartes
• Locke
• Berkeley
• Hume
• Malebranche

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Quick Quiz 15

• Who trumpeted the health benefits of Tar Water?
• Descartes
• Locke
• Berkeley
• Hume
• Malebranche

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Quick Quiz 16

• Which Philosophers below think it is crazy to
  imagine something coming into existence from
  nothing?
• Descartes
• Locke
• Berkeley
• Hume
• Malebranche

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Quick Quiz 17

• God is the only true cause of events. All other
  causes are occasional causes (causes on those
  occasions that God chooses to help an effect
  proceed from a human or creaturely cause). This
  is Occasionalism, the view of
• Descartes
• Locke
• Berkeley
• Hume
• Malebranche

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Quick Quiz 18 Clean up, isle 3!

• hypothesis
• hahy-poth-uh-sis, hi- Show IPA
• noun, plural hypotheses -seez Show IPA. 1.
  a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth
  as an explanation for the occurrence of some
  specified group of phenomena, either asserted
  merely as a provisional conjecture to guide
  investigation (working hypothesis)  or accepted
  as highly probable in the light of established
  facts.
• 2. a proposition assumed as a premise in an
  argument.
• 3. the antecedent of a conditional proposition.
• 4. a mere assumption or guess.
• Okay this is from Dictionary.com I have to
  say I like Bos definition better as restricted
  to theory-based guesses about the future outcome
  of a test. But this dictionary definition fits my
  to speak in the vernacular of the peasantry
  defense of it being correct along with answer b
  (theory) for question 3 as modern dictionaries
  simply report ordinary usage (which is often
  inaccurate).

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Key

• 1. a
• 2. a
• 3. b
• 4. c
• 5. a,b,c,e
• 6. d

7. b 8. d 9. d 10. c 11. c 12. b
13. d 14. c 15. c 16. a,b,c,e 17. e 18. fyi