Philosophy: Realism Quiz Questions

In the original Greek, the word philosophy means:

• the love of politics

• city of brotherly love

• the love of wisdom

• the love of love

The issues philosophy studies keep coming up throughout human history, and so they are referred to as:

• annual

• perennial

• unsolvable

• unimportant

Philosophy proceeds by way of:

• religious faith

• argument

• people's feelings

• guesswork

In regards to philosophical argument, we must keep in mind that it is possible to:

• reason well

• reason poorly

• both poorly and well

• none of the above

One important way that philosophy differs from modern science is that while both examine facts philosophy also examines:

• religious beliefs

• the Bible

• the reason why

• people's dreams

Philosophy is different from theology because theology begins with some type of divine revelation, while philosophy searches for truth using:

• faith alone

• human reason

• only empirical science

• only the New Testament

One important way that philosophy differs from modern science is that science today only looks for particular answers, while philosophy searches for:

• meaningless facts

• religious proofs

• false opinions

• universal truths

In class we noted the focus of human knowing is to understand the causes of things and:

• learn lots of facts

• get good at trivia and quiz games

• process information

• answer the question WHY?

Because it seeks to know the causes of things it studies everything, philosophy is:

• a universal science

• ambiguous and uncertain

• a form of mathematics

• the same as theology

Although philosophy does not achieve the same certitude and precision as math and science, philosophy does achieve:

• TRUTH!

• strong, but un-provable, opinions

• confusion

• contradictions