Intro to Philo Review Quiz STEM A Module 3-4

It tends to make heavy use of logic, reason and categorization.

• Eastern Philosophy

• Southern Philosophy

• Western Philosophy

• No Answer

The approach of ________________ could be summarized as philosophy being a way of life.

• Eastern philosophy            

• Western Philosophy

• Southern Philosophy

• None of the above

It is a way of respecting another living being, another human soul’s wrestling with spiritual impulses, values, and phenomena in contemporary society.

• sympathy

• respect

• empathy

• love

It is an argument that contains a mistake in reasoning.

• fallacy

• opinion

• argument

• debate

The following are methods of philosophizing EXCEPT.

• Sensing a Problem

• Observing and reasoning

• Organizing and evaluating the data

• Application of principles to specific cases.

It is the idea that something is true if it accurately describes the world.

• Correspondence Theory of Truth    

• Coherence Theory of Truth             

• Pragmatic Theory of Truth

• Dialectical Theory of Truth

A statement is not known to be true if the fact corresponding to the statement is not, in principle, verifiable in some manner.

• Correspondence Theory of Truth

• Coherence Theory of Truth             

• Pragmatic Theory of Truth

• No Answer

What is more important to me at this time is my family, is an example of what theory of truth?

• Correspondence Theory   

• Coherent Theory 

• Pragmatist Theory

• No answer

I guess I should buy my 12-year-old daughter the new iPhone. Everyone at her school has one, and her favorite celebrity, Taylor Swift, says they are the best device for listening to her hit songs. This is an example of which logical fallacy?

• hasty generalization

• bandwagon

• ad hominem

• appeal to tradition

If you want to know the truth you have to use emotions and thinking.

• True

• False

• Undecided

• No Answer