Philosophy Quiz

What is the natural knowledge of all things through their ultimate causes?

• Metaphysics

• Logic

• Epistemology

• Philosophy

The word “philosophy” means “I__________” (philos [love] + sophia [wisdom])

• love of God

• love oneself

• love of wisdom

• love for knowledge

__________ is an inflated confidence in the power of the empirical sciences. It holds that knowledge is found in the physical sciences alone and that its methods should be applied to all other disciplines.

• Pragmatism

• Scientism

• Syllogism

• Empiricism

________ considers how some people disagree over what is true, and on that basis concludes that no claim to truth holds any privileged status over any other.

Relativism contradicts itself by claiming a privileged status over non-relative views of truth.

• True

• False

Philosophy does provide us with certain knowledge about reality. However, the knowledge it provides will be philosophical; not scientific (in the modern sense). It will deal with the ultimate causes of everything.

• True

• False

It is the heart of philosophy. It investigates the existence of the universe and of ALL things in it.

• Epistemology

• Ethics

• Metaphysics

• Logic

It investigates KNOWLEDGE. This branch of philosophy answers What does it mean “to know”? and What can we know?

• Logic

• Epistemology

• Ethics

• Metaphysics

The branch of philosophy that studies what actions are morally right and wrong. It answers the question Is there a right and wrong?

• Epistemology

• Metaphysics

• Logic

• Ethics

______ studies right reasoning and argumentation. It answers the question Do all claims have a truth value?

• Logic

• Metaphysics

• Epistemology

• Social