RATIONALISM AND EMPIRICISM

Email

Who is the young mathematician who thought it might be good to overthrow Aristotelian-Thomism altogether? Mark only one oval.

• Rene Descartes

• John Locke

• George Berkeley

• David Hume

What is the Incoherence Objection? Mark only one oval.

• It is the Objection which explain that dream argument requires a distinction between wakefulness and sleep and it claims there is no such distinction.

• It is the Objection which explain that the Evil Demon argument uses illusion to undermine our confidence in sensation

• It explains that the existence of God guarantees that there is a material world that corresponds to our ideas.

• It explains that we had innate, synthetic a priori knowledge. Such knowledge is universal and necessary, but not limited to sense experience.

What is the Sensation Objection? Mark only one oval.

• It is the Objection which explain that dream argument requires a distinction between wakefulness and sleep and it claims there is no such distinction.

• It is the Objection which explain that the Evil Demon argument uses illusion to undermine our confidence in sensation

• It explains that the existence of God guarantees that there is a material world that corresponds to our ideas.

• It explains that we had innate, synthetic a priori knowledge. Such knowledge is universal and necessary, but not limited to sense experience.

What does Descartes mean I think therefore I am? Mark only one oval.

• He couldn’t doubt was himself as the subject of thought. As long as he was thinking, he knew for certain that he existed

• He doubt that he has the subject of thought. He is certain that he do not exist.

• He believed that he knows everything.

• He explained that we are rational being.

What is the Latin word for I think therefore I am? Mark only one oval.

• Cojito, ergo sum.

• Covito ergo sum.

• Cojinito ergo sum.

• Ergo sum rationalis.

What is the distinction Descartes drew between himself as an immaterial thinking thing, and his body as a material extended thing? Mark only one oval.

• Cartesian Dualism

• Cojito, ergo sum.

• Tabula rasa

• Incoherent objection

What is the new philosophy of Descartes that knowledge is depended on the process of reason, rather than sensation? Mark only one oval.

• Empiricism

• Dualism

• Rationalism

• Egoism

What is the view that knowledge of reality begins with sense experience? Mark only one oval.

• Empiricism

• Dualism

• Rationalism

• Egoism

Who are the proponents of Empiricism? Mark only one oval.

• John Locke, George Berkely, and David Hume.

• St. Thomas John Locke, George Berkely,

• George Berkely, David Hume, St. Augustine and John Locke

• Soren Kierkegaard, John Locke and David Hume.