Philosophy Test

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  • 1. 

    Appeal to pity

    • A.

  • 2. 

    Aesthetics

    • A.

      Study of the face

    • B.

      Sudy of beauty and art

    • C.

      Study or the body

    Correct Answer
    B. Sudy of beauty and art
  • 3. 

    Ethics

    • A.

      Study of life

    • B.

      Study of right or good

    • C.

      Study if life

    • D.

      Study of value

    Correct Answer
    B. Study of right or good
  • 4. 

    Epistomology

    • A.

      Breakdown of a argument

    • B.

      Correct reasoning

    • C.

      Study of value

    • D.

      Study of knowledge

    Correct Answer
    D. Study of knowledge
  • 5. 

    Metaphysics

    • A.

      Sudy of the brain

    • B.

      Study of reality

    • C.

      Study of beauty and art

    • D.

      Study of humen existence

    Correct Answer
    B. Study of reality
  • 6. 

    Existential Philosophy

    • A.

      Analyzes modern human existence

    • B.

      Evidence in a arguement

    • C.

      Ongoing debates

    Correct Answer
    A. Analyzes modern human existence
  • 7. 

    Value theory

    • A.

      Sudy of minds

    • B.

      Sudy or people

    • C.

      Sudy of art

    • D.

      Study of value

    Correct Answer
    D. Study of value
  • 8. 

    Analytical Philopsphy

    • A.

      Evidence

    • B.

      Argument of life

    • C.

      To discuss different ways of patterns

    • D.

      Analyzes language in order to clarify ongoing debates

    Correct Answer
    D. Analyzes language in order to clarify ongoing debates
  • 9. 

    Speculative philosophy

    • A.

      Analyze modern human existence

    • B.

      The most ultimate and far reaching questions

    • C.

      Argument where the conculsion is right

    • D.

      None of the above

    Correct Answer
    B. The most ultimate and far reaching questions
  • 10. 

    What is Philosophy

    • A.

      Love of wisdom

    • B.

      Reaction

    • C.

      Study of letter

    • D.

      Summary of evidence

    Correct Answer
    A. Love of wisdom
  • 11. 

    Premises

    • A.

      Conclusion of evidence

    • B.

      Break down in an arguement

    • C.

      Reason or evidence in a arguement

    • D.

      Art of persuasion

    Correct Answer
    C. Reason or evidence in a arguement
  • 12. 

    Inductive argument

    • A.

      Break down of an arguement

    • B.

      Argument where the conclusion is only probable

    • C.

      Argument where the conslusion neccessarily follows from the premises

    Correct Answer
    B. Argument where the conclusion is only probable
  • 13. 

    Informal Fallacy

    • A.

      Arguement where the conclusion is only probable

    • B.

      A break down in arguement

    • C.

      Incorrect arguement designed to prove a point- usually delibrate

    Correct Answer
    C. Incorrect arguement designed to prove a point- usually delibrate
  • 14. 

    Appeal to force

    • A.

      An attempt to divert attention

    • B.

      Uses a lack of evidence

    • C.

      Use threats or itimidation to win an agrument

    • D.

      Argument which rests on causal connections that dont exist

    Correct Answer
    C. Use threats or itimidation to win an agrument
  • 15. 

    Rhetoric

    • A.

      Study or art

    • B.

      The art of persuasion

    • C.

      breakdown in an arguement

    Correct Answer
    B. The art of persuasion
  • 16. 

    Conclusion

    • A.

      None of them

    • B.

      Study or eveidence

    • C.

      Conclusion that follows the premises

    • D.

      Summary of evidence

    Correct Answer
    D. Summary of evidence
  • 17. 

    False Cause

    • A.

      Argument which rests on causal connections that dont exist

    • B.

      Chain reactin in an argument

    • C.

      An attempt to divert attention

    Correct Answer
    A. Argument which rests on causal connections that dont exist
  • 18. 

    Deductive Argument

    • A.

      Incorrect argument

    • B.

      Breakdown in argument

    • C.

      Argument where the conclusion necessarily follows from the premises

    • D.

      Evidence of an argument

    Correct Answer
    C. Argument where the conclusion necessarily follows from the premises
  • 19. 

    Fallacy

    • A.

      A break down in arguement

    • B.

      Reason in an arguement

    • C.

      Analyzes modern human existence

    Correct Answer
    A. A break down in arguement
  • 20. 

    Red Herring

    • A.

      Circular argument

    • B.

      Mistake in which general rule is applied

    • C.

      An attempt to divert attention away from the main point of an argument

    Correct Answer
    C. An attempt to divert attention away from the main point of an argument
  • 21. 

    Ad Hominem

    • A.

      Attempt to arouse sympathy in the audience

    • B.

      Uses a lack of evidence to prove something

    • C.

      None of them

    • D.

      An attack on the person, not the argument

    Correct Answer
    D. An attack on the person, not the argument
  • 22. 

    Appeal to Authority

    • A.

      An authority figure is cited in an argument that is not a ligitimate expert

    • B.

      Uses a lack of evidence to prove something

    • C.

      The cycle of birth, death or rebirth

    Correct Answer
    A. An authority figure is cited in an argument that is not a ligitimate expert
  • 23. 

    Slippery Slope

    • A.

      An attempt to divert attention away from the main point

    • B.

      All humans seek the meaning of life

    • C.

      Chain reaction argument used to cause fear and inaction

    Correct Answer
    C. Chain reaction argument used to cause fear and inaction
  • 24. 

    Straw Man

    • A.

      An attmept to divert attention

    • B.

      Distorts an opponents position to more easily defeat it

    • C.

      Attempt to arouse symphathy in the audience

    Correct Answer
    B. Distorts an opponents position to more easily defeat it
  • 25. 

    Begging the Question

    • A.

      Use threats to intimidation to win an argument

    • B.

      Distorts an opponents position to more easily defeat it

    • C.

      Circular argument where the conlusion simply restates the premises

    Correct Answer
    C. Circular argument where the conlusion simply restates the premises
  • 26. 

    Samsara

    • A.

      To be human is to question

    • B.

      The cycle of birth, death and rebirth

    • C.

      The height of human development

    Correct Answer
    B. The cycle of birth, death and rebirth
  • 27. 

    Logotherapy

    • A.

      All humans seek the meaning of life

    • B.

      The sudy of knowledge

    • C.

      The cycle of birth

    Correct Answer
    A. All humans seek the meaning of life
  • 28. 

    Essentialism

    • A.

      Form and matter

    • B.

      Existence proceeds essece

    • C.

      All humans have a soul

    Correct Answer
    C. All humans have a soul
  • 29. 

    Freidrich Nietzsche said what

    • A.

      Humans are condemed to be free/ concept of bad faith

    • B.

      The will to power/concept of eternal recurrence

    • C.

      Repression, sublimation and the unconsious

    Correct Answer
    B. The will to power/concept of eternal recurrence
  • 30. 

    Abraham Maslow said what and what is the definition

    • A.

      Birth rebirth and death

    • B.

      To be human is to question

    • C.

      Self-actualization -the height of human development

    Correct Answer
    C. Self-actualization -the height of human development
  • 31. 

    Sublimation

    • A.

      Dreams

    • B.

      Re-channel our naturally existing needs

    • C.

      Human nature is cruel

    Correct Answer
    B. Re-channel our naturally existing needs
  • 32. 

    Hylomorphic Composition

    • A.

      Needs, desires that we are aware of only in our dream world

    • B.

      Everything in the natural world is composed of both matter and form

    • C.

      Human nature is cruel

    Correct Answer
    B. Everything in the natural world is composed of both matter and form
  • 33. 

    Rational essentialism

    • A.

      Repression

    • B.

      All humans have souls

    • C.

      Reason, spirit, appetite

    Correct Answer
    C. Reason, spirit, appetite
  • 34. 

    Repression

    • A.

      Needs, desires that we are aware of only in our dream states

    • B.

      Repress painful experience

    • C.

      Matter or form

    Correct Answer
    B. Repress painful experience

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