Descartes Scepticism

What movie is used as a philosophical reference in the text?

• Interstellar

• Blade Runner

• The Matrix

• Inception

Who is considered the original 'Neo' fighting against the matrix of illusion?

• Bertrand Russell

• Rene Descartes

• Plato

• Socrates

What is the study of knowledge called?

• Logic

• Epistemology

• Metaphysics

• Ethics

What form of skepticism is named after Descartes?

• Cartesian Skepticism

• Global Skepticism

• Local Skepticism

• Empirical Skepticism

What analogy does Descartes use to describe his method of doubting beliefs?

• A basket of apples

• A house of cards

• A book of pages

• A stream of water

What does Descartes doubt about the reliability of?

• Logic

• Divine revelation

• Mathematics

• Empirical beliefs

What concept did Bertrand Russell illustrate with the 'Five Minute Hypothesis'?

• Local doubt

• Global doubt

• Empirical evidence

• Cartesian dualism

What did Descartes conclude he could not doubt?

• His own existence

• The truth of mathematics

• The reality of the world

• The existence of God

What famous phrase summarizes Descartes' realization of his own existence?

• Sum ergo cogito

• Cogito ergo sum

• Ergo sum cogito

• Sum cogito ergo

What did Descartes use as the foundation to rebuild his beliefs?

• The existence of the physical world

• The existence of God

• His own existence as a thinking thing

• The reliability of the senses