Reference no: EM13519652

Question 1

Kant calls the world of experience the _____ world.
    phenomenal
    analytic
    noumenal
    synthetic

Question 2

Berkeley and Kant both thought of themselves as providing an antidote to at least some forms of skepticism.
    True
    False

Question 3

The proposition that all large planets are planets is an example of a synthetic proposition.
    True
    False

Question 4

According to Kant, virtually nothing can be known about the noumenal world except that it exists.
    True
    False

Question 5 

Kant disagreed with Hume about whether or not any analytic truths can be known a posteriori.
    True
    False

Question 6 

According to Kant, at least some synthetic truths about the geometry of space can be known a priori.
    True
    False

Question 7

The proposition that diamond is harder than granite is an example of an synthetic proposition
    True
    False

Question 8

One of the things Kant's transcendental deduction attempts to establish is that there are certain characteristics that all experiences must have.
    True
    False

Question 9

According to Kant, the following is a component of experience only for beings who have the faculty of understanding:
    space
    causality
    time
    none of the above

Question 10

According to Hegel, nothing can be understood apart from its place in history.
    True
    False

Question 11

According to Hegel, reality is unified and teleological.
    True
    False

Question 12

Hegel agreed with Kant that the noumenal world is unknowable.
    True
    False

Question 13

Which of the following best characterizes Hegel?
    British empiricist
    French rationalist
    Platonist
    German idealist

Question 14

When the dialectic is described as a three-part process, it involves the reconciliation of a synthesis and a thesis by moving beyond them to an antithesis.
    True
    False

Question 15

According to Hegel, all knowledge must be derived deductively from an absolutely certain starting point.
    True
    False

Question 16

Hegel uses the word "Spirit" to designate the subjective part of "the Absolute" that manifests itself in human consciousness and human history.
    True
    False

Question 17

Who originally came up with the triadic description of dialectic?
    Fichte
    Parmenides
    Hegel
    Schelling

Question 18

According to Hegel, history is a series of random events.
    True
    False

Question 19

(Review) According to Hume, there are some truths that are knowable through pure reason, but these concern only relations of ideas and not matters of fact.
    True
    False

Question 20

(Review) Berkeley rejected solipsism.
    True
    False