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1. David Hume says that we must have a direct _______ to gain certain knowledge.

a) reference

b) concept

c) impression

d) citation

2. In the Allegory of the Cave, the realm inside the cave represents:

a) the intelligible realm, with the Ideals or Forms of important ethical concepts.

b) the academy.

c) the ideal city-state.

d) the visible world, the world we know through our senses.

3. Determinism is the thesis that...

a) All our behavior is motivated by subconscious desires.

b) Given a complete account of how things are at one time, there is only one possible way they can be at a later time.

c) We have no free will.

d) We have free will

4. The philosophical problem of free will, as described in the course content and videos, is that...

a) All human beings have a right to bodily autonomy, but many are forced into lives of slavery and servitude.

b) Human experience would suggest that we all have free will, yet there are compelling arguments that we do not.

c) If human beings have freedom, they are likely to misuse it.

d) A killer whale saves the life of a foster child.

5. Which one of the following is a compatibilist position?

a) Soft Determinism

b) Libertarianism

c) Incompatibilism

d) Hard Determinism