Descartes Meditation 1

In the 'barrel of apples' analogy, the rotten apples represent

• Unfounded knowledge claims

• All fruit

• Desires

• Innate ideas

The search for the perfect apple if comparable to...

• the search for God

• the search for an indubitable foundation claim

• the search for the perfect partner

• the search for doubt

Which one is NOT an aim of Descartes in his Meditations?

• Establish knowledge

• Prove God

• Defeat the empiricists

• Support scepticism

What type of knowledge does the Dreaming Argument reject?

• A priori

• A posteriori

• All knowledge

• No knowledge

Descartes' book is called Meditations on

• Skepticism

• First Knowledge

• First Beliefs

• First Philosophy

What is the name given to things written/created by Descartes

• Cartesian

• Descartian

• Renesian

• Doubtian

The Dreaming Argument tries to show that...

• Dreaming is a nightmare

• We are dreaming all the time

• Dreaming makes us more knowledgeable

• We could be dreaming right now

What does Descartes reject first in his decent into doubt in Meditation 1?

• Dreams

• God

• Evil demon

• Senses

What tradition did Descartes break away from?

• Monasticism

• Scholasticism

• Rationalism

• Buddhism

What was the emerging view of the universe when Descartes was writing?

• Catholicentric

• Geocentric

• Renecentric

• Heliocentric