1st quiz in intro. philosophy 3rd quarter

According to Plato, what is knowledge?

• A justified true belief

• There is no such thing as true knowledge

• Opinion

• That which can be proven

Who is widely known as the first existentialist, despite never having used the word existentialism?

• Søren Kierkegaard

• Alan Watts

• Hannah Arendt

• Jean-Paul Sartre

Fallacies can be either strong arguments or relevant points that is factual and has a sound basis.

• True

• False

He is the father of phenomenology and the author of “Logical Investigations.”

• Edmund Husserl

• Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Immanuel Kant

• Gabriel Marcel

This method of philosophizing is also considered as a branch of philosophy.

• phenomenology

• existentialism

• logic

• postmodernism

A specific kind of appeal to emotion in which someone tries to win support for an argument or idea by exploiting his/her opponent’s feelings of pity and guilt. What kind of fallacy is this?

• Appeal to force

• Appeal to pity

• Appeal to people

• Against the person

A type of fallacy in which the proposition to be proven is assumed implicity or explicity in the premise.

• Appeal to force

• Begging the question

• Appeal to people

• Against the person

In which method of philosophizing is the word “freedom” associated?

• logic

• phenomenology

• existentialism

• postmodernism

Appearance and experience were connected in which method of philosophizing?

• postmodernism

• logic

• existentialism

• phenomenology

The Greek word of the term phenomenon which means appearance.

• phainomenon

• phenomeni

• phenomina

• phenomenus