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1. Which of the following are true according to Hume?

Ideas are strong and vivid; impressions are naturally faint and obscure

Ideas are frequent; impressions are infrequent

Ideas are infrequent; impressions are frequent

Ideas are naturally faint and obscure; impressions are strong and vivid

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2. According to Hume what is required for a term to possess any real meaning?

Its associated idea must be traced back to an impression

It must be supported by reason

It must show cause and effect

Nothing can be shown to have any real meaning

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3. For Newton and Hume, which of the following was the correct way to make a hypothesis?

A close experimental examination of the sensible facts

Coming up with an intuitive explanation for the phenomena first

Asking local theological and scientific leaders what they think

Both A. and B.

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4. According to Hume all ideas are NOT ______?

Naturally faint

Obscure

Held by a slender hold

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5. Hume argues that the traditional concept of God (infinite goodness and wisdom) cannot be inferred from experience. What reason is given for this argument?

The pinnacle of God’s creation (mankind) is far from perfect.

The cause (the world) must be proportioned to the effect (God).

The world is short of perfect goodness, and therefore its creator cannot far exceed the goodness of the world.

Infinite goodness would leave no room for progression, and Hume believes in continual progression.

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6. The most popular argument for the existence of God during the Enlightenment can be called the argument from design. How might that argument be summarized?

God, as our designer, left within us certain ideas which could not originate within our own minds.

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7. What is NOT a lesson we learn from Hume?

Our actions are governed by nonrational passions

Our idea of causality is a nonrational custom that our minds learn over time

We have no reason to believe in God and are therefore reduced to solipsism and despair.

8. Plato and Hume have contrasting ideas on reason and the passions because:

Plato indicates that reason and passion work together. Hume says that reason is the slave to passion.

Hume indicates that reason and passion work together. Plato says that passion is the slave to reason.

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9. One definition of cause that Hume gives is:

An object followed by another, and whose appearance always conveys the thought to that other

An object, where all the objects, similar to the first, are preceded by objects similar to the second

An object followed by another, and whose appearance never conveys the thought to that other

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10. Hume concludes that any attempt to identify an impression that causes our idea of the "self" is "impossible to answer without a manifest contradiction and absurdity" because:

Such an impression must necessarily be “constant and invariable” throughout life, and no such impression exists.

Just as an eye cannot turn to perceive itself, neither can the “self” turn to perceive itself.

The “self” must be several impressions that provide reference, however it is actually one single impression.

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11. According to Hume, what is the passion in human beings that makes possible a "disinterestedness" of moral judgments?

Sympathy or “fellow feeling”

Compassion

Moral passiveness

Egoism

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12. On which of the following statements could Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume agree?

That we are incapable of understanding a material world because we are non-material.

That the mind is capable of perfect reason, and reason is universal among all people.

That what we know first and best are our ideas.

That understanding of the world comes only through experimentation and not through reasoning it out half credit for late work

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