Philo Quiz :)

Who stated, "I think, therefore I am."

• Plato

• David Hume

• Parmenidies

• Rene Descartes

Empiricism is:

• a theory based on the claim that reason is the source of knowledge.

• a theory based on the claim that experience is the source of knowledge.

• a theory based on the claim that experience and reason are the true sources of knowledge.

• a theory based on the claim that more land equates to more power.

Metaphphysics is concerned with:

• the nature of reality

• the nature of ethics and reason

• the nature of language

• the nature of knowledge

Occam's Razor is:

• the problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the smallest possible set of elements.

• the problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the largest possible set of elements.

• the problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with several possible set of elements.

To infer means to:

• conclude from evidence and reasoning rather than from implicit statements.

• conclude from evidence and reasoning rather than from vague statements.

• conclude from evidence and reasoning rather than from empirical statements.

• conclude from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements.

◦This type of reasoning uses ______ arguments, in which the conclusion is the most plausible (reasonable/believable) guess to explain the premises (which are incomplete observations).

• Induction

• Abduction

• Deduction

• Inference

The quality of being clear, logical, and convincing; lucidity is:

• Cogency

• Informal logic

• Fallacy

• Informal fallacy

A proposition statement is comprised of which 3 parts:

• premise deduction

  induction

• premise

  statement

  deduction

• premise

  premise

  conclusion

• premise

  statement

  conclusion

The ______ says that if something exists, it has a nature, a single true nature. It is what it is.

• the law of identity

• the law of non-contradiction

• the law of excluded middle

Who said: “You cannot step twice into the same rivers; for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you.”

• Parmenidies

• Socrates

• Aristotle

• Heraclitus