Roundabout summary of all material covered in the first three weeks of class. The notes to create this quiz were provided by Jim Stover, Philosophy Professor at Wheeling Jesuit University.
Epistemology
Ethics
Aesthetics
Metaphysics
Logic
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Epistemology
Ethics
Aesthetics
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Epistemology
Ethics
Aesthetics
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Epistemology
Ethics
Aesthetics
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Epistemology
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Plato
Stalin
Kant
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Third Man Argument
How can forms in the world of forms be more real than the forms that exist on Earth?
Modern science would have its way with his theory.
How could we ever gain knowledge of the forms apart from particulars?
How can you relate the form of good to human behavior?
Plato was a crazy man and everyone called him the local drunk.
For objects of intellect (particular dog universal dog)
To provide subject matter for the sciences
To ground predication (this apple is red)
All of the Above
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Use the most simple explanation for things
Not sure if we need to know this
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It's the idea Plato held
The theory that there is a single universal reality outside the mind, which corresponds with each universal idea in the mind. (World of Ideas)
Idealists believe in extreme realism
Plato rejected extreme realism
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The concept of universal ideas exists only in the mind, but is abstracted from sensible real things. (Moderate Realism)
Nominalism
Universal ideas exist in the mind, distinct from sense images, but do not correspond to any objective common element existing outside the mind in things
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Universal ideas exist in the mind, distinct from sense images, but do not correspond to any objective common element existing outside the mind in things
A belief held by Peter Abelard
All of the Above
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Conceptualism
Nominalism
Nothing is opposite of realism
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Appeal to Authority
Appeal to Sense Perception
Appeal to Reason
Appeal to Communication
Appeal to Intuition
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Appeal to Authority
Appeal to Sense Perception
Appeal to Reason
Appeal to Intuiton
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Appeal to Authority
Appeal to Sense Perception
Appeal to Reason
Appeal to Intuiton
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Appeal to Authority
Appeal to Sense Perception
Appeal to Reason
Appeal to Intuiton
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Appeal to Authority
Appeal to Sense Perception
Appeal to Reason
Appeal to Intuiton
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Skepticism
Rationalism
Empiricism
The Kantan Critique
All of the Above
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Skepticism
Rationalism
Empiricism
The Kantian Critique
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Skepticism
Rationalism
Empiricism
The Kantian Critique
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Skepticism
Rationalism
Empiricism
The Kantian Critique
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Skepticism
Rationalism
Empiricism
The Kantian Critique
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Pyrrho of Elis
Sextus Empiricus
David Hume
All but Plato
Plato
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Empiricism
Solipsism
Another -ism
Skepticism
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A priori
A posteriori
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From what comes before
From what comes after
With reference to experience
Without reference to experience
Reason from ground to consequence
Reason from consequence to ground
This is the effect of that cause
Every event has a cause
Analytic (true by definition)
Synthetic (true by experience)
Laws of the natural sciences
Laws of Logic
Certainty
Probability
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From what comes before
From what comes after
With reference to experience
Without reference to experience
Reason from ground to consequence
Reason from consequence to ground
This is the effect of that cause
Every event has a cause
Analytic (true by definition)
Synthetic (true by experience)
Laws of the natural sciences
Laws of Logic
Certainty
Probability
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Locke
Berkeley
Socrates
Hume
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If it is something of which something else cannot be without
If it is something which is alone said to guarantee or be enough that something is the case
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If it is something of which something else cannot be without
If it is something which is alone said to guarantee or be enough that something is the case
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It is a necessary condition in order to have knowledge
It is a sufficient condition for having knowledge
It is not a necessary condition in order to have knowledge
It is not a sufficient condition for having knowledge
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It is necessary in order to have knowledge
It is not sufficient for knowledge since you can have wrong beliefs
Your beliefs can be false
Belief shows commitment, not truth
Belief aims at the truth, but does not always arrive at it
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When combined with truth and belief, knowledge is ALWAYS achieved
To say a belief is justified means you must have good reasons for associating this belief with truth
Gettier's problem confirms the second choice and involves justification.
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The test of consistency
A belief is true if it is consistent with our other beliefs
Most held by idealists
All of the Above
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Truth results from the consistency between judgments
Truth results from correspondence between our judgments and facts
The idea of consistency or harmony could explain how some things are both accepted and not accepted as true at different times.
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Degrees of truth seems problematic
Degrees of truth seem probable
To have coherence we seem to already presume truth
What about coherently false systems?
Fiction can give coherence, but not truth
Confusing how I tell what's true with what it is to be true
Consistency does not necessarily entail factual consistency
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The test of utility
Truth is the same thing as utility or usefulness
For a belief to be true, it must be useful.
Truths are beliefs which work
Held by Empiricists
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One can think of a belief as working well but not being true
True beliefs typically work well, but only because they are true
The Coherence Theory disproves this theory
Some beliefs work well for some people and not others
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Truth does not depend on our judgments
We can sometimes be wrong
Something is true if it represents the way things really are
Generally accepted by realists
Knowledge is unattainable
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False
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