Intuition and deduction thesis revision

What type of reasoning does Descartes present in his thesis?

• Inductive
• Deductive
• Abductive
• Intuitive

What does 'intuition' refer to in Descartes' context?

• Personal feelings
• Sensory perception
• Rational intuition
• Empirical evidence

How does Descartes argue that knowledge can be gained?

• Through sensory experience alone
• Through empirical evidence alone
• Through rational intuition and deduction
• Through memory alone

What does Descartes claim we can know through rational intuition and deduction?

• The existence of mental substances, God, and physical objects
• Only physical objects
• Only God
• Only mental substances

Who disputes the concept of rational intuition as presented by Descartes?

• Rationalists
• Empiricists
• Idealists
• Pragmatists

What do empiricists claim about knowledge of analytic propositions?

• It is a function of rational intuition
• It is a form of conceptual knowledge
• It is impossible
• It is always false

What is the main debate between empiricism and rationalism?

• Whether we can have a priori knowledge of synthetic propositions about the world external to our minds
• Whether we can have knowledge of analytic propositions
• Whether God exists
• Whether mental states are real

What does Descartes seek to find in Meditation II?

• The existence of God
• Justified beliefs
• Knowledge that is completely certain and indubitable
• The nature of physical objects

What is the 'evil demon' hypothesis used to illustrate?

• The reliability of sensory perception
• The existence of God
• The possibility of being deceived about everything except one's own existence
• The nature of dreams

What is Descartes' famous conclusion in Meditation II?

• I am a body
• I am deceived
• I think, therefore I am
• I doubt everything