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Epistemology

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 30mins

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

d)

Truth changes from person to person

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 Hume's impressions?

a)

Sensory data

b)

Thoughts

c)

Imagination

d)

Raw data

8.

Doubting whether knowledge is possible is called:

a)

Skepticism

b)

Causality

c)

Rationalism

d)

Fallibilism

9.
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
10.
What is the knowledge we gain from experience?
a)
A priori knowledge
b)
A posteriori knowledge
c)
Impressions
d)
Ideas
11.

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

d)

The Essential world

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

d)

The impressionable world

13.

What is the world as we experience it?

a)

The world of Forms

b)

The noumenal world

c)

The phenomenal world

d)

The Essential world

14.
Who wrote that all knowledge begins with experience, but it does not all come from experience?
a)
Plato
b)
Descartes
c)
Hume
d)
Kant
15.

Which best describes the 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

d)

truths that do not need to be believed to be valid

16.

What is rationalism?

a)

we acquire knowledge through experience

b)

we are born knowing only our version of the world

c)

we acquire knowledge through reasoning

d)

we are unable to acquire knowledge by any means

17.

Who is the main philosopher in skepticism?

a)

Socrates

b)

William James

c)

Rene Descartes

d)

John Dewey

18.

What is one thing skeptics are sure of?

a)

God

b)

Their own existence

c)

Sense experience

d)

Rational thought

19.

What is fallibilism?

a)

the idea that all knowledge is tentative and subject to revision

b)

the idea that there can only be objective belief

c)

the idea that there is always one true answer

d)

the idea that humans cannot experience true knowledge because of their fallibility

20.

Does relativism believe in universal truths?

a)

No

b)

Yes

21.

What is intuition?

a)

the raw data of sense perception

b)

processed data from sense perception

c)

frameworks that already exist within the mind

d)

a special gift of insight or a gut feeling

22.

Which of the following is NOT an anchor point of rationalism?

a)

Reason is the primary source of our knowledge about reality.

b)

Sense experience is an unreliable route to knowledge.

c)

The only source of genuine knowledge is sense experience.

d)

Fundamental truths about our world can be known a priori: innate or self-evident.

23.

Which of the following is NOT an anchor point of empiricism?

a)

Reason is a primary source of our knowledge about reality.

b)

The only source of genuine knowledge is sense experience.

c)

Reason is an unreliable and inadequate route to knowledge unless grounded in sense experience.

d)

There is no evidence of innate ideas within the mind that are known apart from experience.

24.

Ideas that are inborn; ideas or principles that the mind already contains prior to experience.

a)

Noumena

b)

Relativism

c)

Innate ideas

d)

Correspondence theory of truth

25.

Who came up with the phenomenal world vs the noumenal world?

a)

C.S. Lewis

b)

Willard V.O. Quine

c)

Plato

d)

Immanuel Kant

26.

Plato claimed...

a)

JTP

b)

B=JTB

c)

K=JTB

d)

B=JTK

27.

Indirect realism is the view that:

a)

Knowledge is perception

b)

We perceive the external world indirectly, via sense data

c)

The world is known by God

d)

Knowledge is indirectly communicated by a false world

28.

Berkely claims that

a)

Knowledge is a result of hallucinations

b)

The immediate objects of perception are false.

c)

The immediate objects of perception are mind-dependent ideas.

d)

We can see primary qualities.

29.

We can’t say objects have one single size, shape, or motion independent of how it is perceived. So, primary qualities are also mind-dependent.

a)

Veil of perception

b)

Locke

c)

Secondary qualities

d)

Perceptual variation

30.

Which of the below is Berkely's Master argument

a)

is essentially that when we conceive of a mind-independent object, it becomes part of the world.

b)

is essentially that we cannot conceive of a mind-independent object because as soon as we conceive of such an object, it becomes mind-independent.

c)

is essentially that we can conceive of a mind-independent object because as soon as we see such an object, it becomes real.

d)

is essentially that we cannot conceive of a mind-independent object because as soon as we conceive of such an object, it becomes mind-dependent.

31.

P1. Everything we perceive is mind-dependent (as argued above)

P2. There are 3 possible causes of these perceptions:

  1. Ideas
  2. My own mind
  3. Another mind Ideas

P3. It can’t be ideas, because ideas by themselves don’t cause anything

P4. It can’t be my own mind, because if I was the cause of my own perception then I’d be able to control what I perceived.

C.

a)

C. Therefore, the cause of my perception must be another an alien.

b)

C. Therefore, the cause of my perception must be another mind.

Given the complexity, variety, order, and manner of my perceptions, this other mind must be God

c)

C. Therefore, the cause of my perception must be my unconscious mind.

Given the complexity, variety, order, and manner of my perceptions, this mind is designed

d)

C. I am a tree...or am I?

32.
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
33.
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
34.
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
35.
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
36.
Which best describes: Knowing how to do something such as how to drive a car
a)
Acquaintance knowledge
b)
Ability Knowledge
c)
Propositional Knowledge
37.
Which best describes: Knowing facts such as knowing that Paris is the capital of France
a)
Acquaintance knowledge
b)
Ability Knowledge
c)
Propositional Knowledge
38.
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
39.
Who argues that knowledge is achieved when the person is in 'cognitive contact' with reality
a)
Zagzebski
b)
Kant
c)
Plato
40.
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
41.
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)
42.
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
43.
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
44.
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
45.
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
46.

'All men are mortal' is...

a)

Analytic

b)

Synthetic

47.

'All grandparents have grandchildren' is...

a)

Synthetic

b)

Analytic

48.

5+3=8 is...

a)

Necessary

b)

Contigent

49.

'Post boxes are red' is...

a)

Necessary

b)

Contingent

50.

Arguments in which the premises entail the conclusion are

a)

Inductive

b)

Deductive

c)

Abductive

51.

Arguments in which the premises make the conclusion likely are...

a)

Deductive

b)

Abductive

c)

Inductive

52.

Which best describes Empiricism?

a)

Synthetic and analytic knowledge comes from experience

b)

Synthetic knowledge can be a priori

c)

All synthetic knowledge comes from experience

d)

Analytic knowledge comes from experience

53.

Which statement best describes Rationalism?

a)

All synthetic knowledge is a priori

b)

At least some synthetic knowledge is a priori

c)

All knowledge is a posteriori

d)

Analytic knowledge is a posteriori

54.

Which is valid?

a)

If its sunny then it will be warm, its not sunny so its not warm

b)

If its raining i will get wet, its raining so i will get wet

c)

All rain is blue, my cup is blue so my cup is rain

55.

Who used the marble metaphor ?

a)

Descartes

b)

Plato

c)

Hume

d)

Leibniz

56.

Who used the blank sheet of paper metaphor ?

a)

Locke

b)

Bekley

c)

Hume

d)

Leibniz

57.

Which phrase does NOT apply to the cogito

a)

self authenticating

b)

inconsistent to say I don't exist

c)

stops the infinite regress

d)

dubitable claim

58.
Which is another term for the evil demon?
a)
bad genius
b)
deceiving god
c)
malicious genius
d)
benevolent god
59.

Which is valid?

a)

All birds lay eggs, crocodiles lay eggs so crocodiles are a bird.

b)

All reptiles are cold blooded; snakes are cold blooded so snakes are reptiles

c)

All mammals are warm blooded, giraffes are mammals so giraffes are warm blooded.

60.

Hume's missing shade of blue shows

a)

there are many complex ideas

b)

simple ideas exist

c)

some ideas are not based on impressions

d)

all ideas are based on impressions

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