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WorksheetsEpistemology 1 - What is Knowledge?
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 26mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is epistemology?
a)
The theory of knowledge
b)
The theory of right action and the greater good
c)
The study of the fundamental nature of reality
d)
The study of the meaning and nature of religion
2.
Which belief statement represents Empiricism?
a)
Truth is discovered with the mind
b)
Truth is perceived with the senses
c)
Truth is unknowable
3.
What is knowledge of things as they really exist?
a)
Objective truth
b)
Subjective truth
4.
What is knowledge based on a subject's perception or experience?
a)
Objective truth
b)
Subjective truth
5.
Who wrote "The Allegory of the Cave"?
a)
Plato
b)
Descartes
c)
Hume
d)
Kant
6.
Who claimed, "I think, therefore I am"?
a)
Plato
b)
Descartes
c)
Hume
d)
Kant
7.
What are impressions?
a)
Sense experiences, emotions
b)
Thoughts
c)
Imagination
8.
Doubting whether knowledge is possible is called ...
a)
Skepticism
b)
Causality
c)
Rationalism
9.
The idea that events are related so that one event causes another is called....
a)
Causality
b)
Constant conjunction
c)
Empiricism
10.
What is the knowledge that is built into the structure of our minds?
a)
A priori knowledge
b)
A posteriori knowledge
c)
Impressions
d)
Ideas
11.
What is the knowledge we gain from experience?
a)
A priori knowledge
b)
A posteriori knowledge
c)
Impressions
d)
Ideas
12.
What is the perfect world that our world is a shadow of?
a)
The world of Forms
b)
The noumenal world
c)
The phenomenal world
13.
What is the world as it really is, independent of our experience?
a)
The world of Forms
b)
The noumenal world
c)
The phenomenal world
14.
What is the world as we experience it?
a)
The world of Forms
b)
The noumenal world
c)
The phenomenal world
15.
Feeling that something is true is called ...
a)
Intuition
b)
A priori knowledge
c)
Sense experience
16.
Foucault says that truth exists in a circular relationship with ...
a)
Power
b)
Knowledge
c)
Self
d)
All of these
17.
Who wrote that all knowledge begins with experience, but it does not all come from experience?
a)
Plato
b)
Descartes
c)
Hume
d)
Kant
18.
What is JTB short for?
a)
justified true belief
b)
justified trio belief
c)
justified triple belief
19.
Which best describes "tripartite definition of knowledge"?
a)
knowledge is a justified true belief
b)
reasoning cannot be based on false premises
c)
agents must use a reliable method of justification
20.
Which best describes "no false lemmas"?
a)
knowledge is a justified true belief
b)
reasoning cannot be based on false premises
c)
agents must use a reliable method of justification
21.
Which best describes "reliabilism"?
a)
knowledge is a justified true belief
b)
reasoning cannot be based on false premises
c)
agents must use a reliable method of justification
22.
Which best describes "infallibilism"?
a)
beliefs must be infallible to be knowledge
b)
reasoning cannot be based on false premises
c)
agents must use a reliable method of justification
23.
Which best describes "virtue epistemology"?
a)
the agent must be a person who is skilled in finding knowledge
b)
beliefs must be sensitive to the truth
24.
Which best describes "infallibilism"?
a)
beliefs must be infallible to be knowledge
b)
reasoning cannot be based on false premises
25.
What is "Empiricism"?
a)
we aquire knowledge via experience
b)
we are born knowing some things
c)
we aquire knowledge via reasoning
26.
What is "Innatism"?
a)
we aquire knowledge via experience
b)
we are born knowing some things
c)
we aquire knowledge via reasoning
27.
What is "Rationalism"?
a)
we aquire knowledge via experience
b)
we are born knowing some things
c)
we aquire knowledge via reasoning
28.
Which best describes: Knowing a person, or knowing attributes about them - e.g. "I know Jack".
a)
Acquaintance knowledge
b)
Ability Knowledge
c)
Propositional Knowledge
29.
Which best describes: Knowing how to do something such as how to drive a car
a)
Acquaintance knowledge
b)
Ability Knowledge
c)
Propositional Knowledge
30.
Which best describes: Knowing facts such as knowing that Paris is the capital of France
a)
Acquaintance knowledge
b)
Ability Knowledge
c)
Propositional Knowledge
31.
Which type of knowledge can easily be transferred from one person to another? (Zagzebski said this)
a)
Acquaintance knowledge
b)
Ability Knowledge
c)
Propositional Knowledge
32.
Who argues that knowledge is achieved when the person is in 'cognitive contact' with reality
a)
Zagzebski
b)
Kant
c)
Plato
33.
"Tripartite" means…
a)
It has three parts to it
b)
It has two parts to it
c)
It has four parts to it
34.
"Tripartite theory of knowledge" is made up of…
a)
Justification, Truth and Belief (JTB)
b)
Justification, Trial and Balance (JTB)
c)
Justification, Track and Bring (JTB)
35.
Was 'Gettier' for or against the tripartite definition of knowledge?
a)
Against
b)
For
36.
Who wrote the "Tripartite theory of knowledge"
a)
Plato
b)
Gettier
37.
What was Gettier's main argument AGAINST the "Tripartite theory of knowledge"
a)
Justification, Truth and Belief could all be achieved through luck - this does not mean it is knowledge.
b)
A person only has knowledge if it's justifiable (have good reasons), true (no such thing as false knowledge) and they believe in it
38.
What was Plato's main argument FOR the "Tripartite theory of knowledge"
a)
Justification, Truth and Belief could all be achieved through luck - this does not mean it is knowledge.
b)
A person only has knowledge if it's justifiable (have good reasons), true (no such thing as false knowledge) and they believe in it
39.
Who wrote about "No False Lemmas"?
a)
Plato
b)
Gettier
c)
Descartes
40.
What does "No False Lemmas" mean?
a)
A belief is not knowledge if it is based on false premises
b)
A belief is knowledge if it is Justified, True and Believed. (JTB)
41.
Who wrote about about "Infallibilism"?
a)
Plato
b)
Gettier
c)
Descartes
42.
What does "Infallibilism" mean?
a)
JTB is not sufficient for knowledge - merely believing in something doesn't make it true
b)
A belief is knowledge if it is taken on faith
c)
A belief is knowledge if it is justified
43.
Which fits: If something is infallible, it cannot be wrong - not just that the individual feels certain, the proposition itself has to be certain.
a)
Infallibilism
b)
JTB (Justifies True Belief)
c)
tripartite definition of knowledge
44.
What was Gettier's examples used to argue about "no false lemmas"?
a)
Job Interview (Smith and Jones) and Brown in Barcelona
b)
The Allegory of the Cave
c)
The realm of the forms
45.
What was Plato's example used to demonstrate our experience of the realm of the forms?
a)
Brown in Barcelona
b)
The Allegory of the Cave
c)
Job Interview (Smith and Jones)
46.
What's the missing blank: ……………… is a response to Gettier's No False Lemmas argument and focuses on good justification by a reliable process
a)
Reliabilism
b)
JTB (Justifies True Belief)
c)
No False Lemmas
47.
Senses, Sources, Memory and Inference are examples of…
a)
possible ways to determine if a belief is reliable (Reliabilism)
b)
JTB (Justifies True Belief)
c)
No False Lemmas
48.
This is the main critisism of "Reliabilism"
a)
Reliability is highly subjective and therefore debatable. E.g. someone might think information on the news is a reliable source and someone else might think the news is bias
b)
Other than maths and analytic truths, there are very few substantive propositions which we can know for sure
49.
This is the main critisism of "infallibilism"
a)
Reliability is highly subjective and therefore debatable. E.g. someone might think information on the news is a reliable source and someone else might think the news is bias
b)
Other than maths and analytic truths, there are very few substantive propositions which we can know for sure
50.
What is "virtue epistemology"?
a)
Looking at the person themselves when justifying a belief. E.g. we would give more credit to a scientist when discussing climate change over a politician.
b)
JTB is not sufficient for knowledge - merely believing in something doesn't make it true
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