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Questions
1. Skepticism is:
a philosophical attitude that we should question things and demand rigorous evidence for everything.
the epistemological position that knowledge is impossible.
never believing anything, despite it being true.
a way of learning about the world, where we question everything, and what is left is absolutely true.
2. Natural philosophy is also known as
intuitive philosophy.
the philosophy that everyone naturally engages in.
ecology.
science.
3. Philosophers generally define knowledge as
Justified, True, belief.
Reasonable, true, belief.
Clear and distinct ideas.
True belief.
4. Metaphysics is:
The study of reality.
The study of an unseen reality.
The philosophical investigation into science, specifically physics.
A field of study characterized by understanding energy fields produced by metals, minerals, and crystals.
5. The literal translation of philosophy from Greek is:
The study of questioning.
Questioning assumptions
The love of wisdom.
The love of understanding
6. Methodological doubt is
the collective name for the theories Descartes believes is true about the world.
a game or strategy that Descartes uses to get at something undoubtable.
an example of the silly arguments skeptics make against knowledge.
a process that Descartes uses to show that the skeptics are correct.
7. Imagination is limited to:
capable of creating wholly new ideas made up of ideas that we have never seen or thought of.
taking existing ideas and recombining them to create new ideas.
things we've only seen or heard about.
it is completely unlimited.
8. A posteriori ideas are ideas that
I gain from sense experience.
are always true
are instincts.
I was born with.
9. Deductive arguments have:
conclusions that you accept
conclusions you must accept, if all the premises are true.
conclusions you have to accept even if the premises are false.
conclusions we can reject even if all the premises are true.
10. An innate idea is an idea that
I get from my senses.
does not come from experience, rather I was born with it.
I learned as an infant
it is an instinct
11. The Dream argument is designed to specifically doubt:
rational or mathematical knowledge
empirical or sensory knowledge
all knowledge
the existence of God.