TOK II Chapter 12 Quiz

The formal system, developed by Euclid, uses what type of reasoning?

• inductive
• deductive

Axioms are (select all that apply)

• conclusions
• basic assumptions
• necessarily true statements

In a proof a theorem is

• not shown to be necessarily true
• shown to follow logically from the relevant axioms

A posteriori knowledge is knowledge which can be justified independently of experience.

• True
• False

A school of thought which claims that all knowledge is ultimately based on sense perception

• Empiricism
• Platonism
• Formalism

The belief that mathematical truths are true by definition

• Platonism
• Formalism
• Empiricism

The view that mathematical truths give us a priori insight into the structure of reality

• Formalism
• Empiricism
• Platonism