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Methods of Philosophizing

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 27mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

According to the Tripartite Theory of Knowledge, "one cannot know it without believing it".

a)

True

b)

False

2.

It is an organized way of attaining the truth or finding out the answers to some philosophical problems.

a)

Method

b)

Doubt

c)

Elenchus

d)

Inductive

3.

The skeptical attitude in the Socratic Method is not absolute but conditional and transitory.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Cogito ergo sum is self-evident and indubitable.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

It offers significant examples of a process of philosophical inquiry which was enriched by engaging the data of faith.

a)

Thomistic Method

b)

Socratic Method

c)

Maieutic Method

d)

Cartesian Method

6.

According to St. Edith Stein "all human philosophy is bound to be fragmentary".

a)

True

b)

False

7.

There is a single philosophical method that is common to all philosophers.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

It is a kind of cooperative dialogical argumentation between persons which usually happen by asking and answering questions

a)

Elenchus

b)

Socratic Method

c)

Universal Methodic Doubt

d)

Scholastic Method

9.

Just as a midwife assists the pregnant woman in the process of delivering birth to a child; so Socrates also helped the accomplices to bring their ideas into birthing.

a)

Maieutic Method

b)

Cartesian Method

c)

Thomistic Method

d)

Empirical

10.

It is about analyzing essences(eidos): what makes the thing you're contemplating what it is.

a)

Epoché

b)

Phenomenological Reduction

c)

Eidetic Reduction

d)

Transcendental Eidetic Reduction

11.

According to the Tripartite Theory of Knowledge, "no matter how well justified or sincere a belief, if it is not true then it cannot constitute knowledge".

a)

True

b)

False

12.

Based on this method, the telos of knowledge is the realization of the right definitions of socio-ethical concepts.

a)

Socratic Method is inductive and empirical

b)

Socratic Method is definitional and conceptual

c)

Socratic Method is deductive

d)

Socratic Method is skeptical.

13.

Universal Methodic Doubt is just a heuristic device and not a final doubt

a)

True

b)

False

14.

It is a way of life of the individual character, a proposed ‘art of living’ on how to accept realities in life and find its meaning.

a)

Chinese Philosophy

b)

Mimamsakas Philosophy

c)

Dionysian Pessimism

d)

Scholastic Method

15.

Vedas views for a kind of spoken words and are self-existent.

a)

Mimamsakas Method

b)

Chinese Philosophy

c)

Universal Methodic Doubt

d)

Thomistic Method

16.

According to the Tripartite Theory of Knowledge, "in order to know a thing it is not enough to merely believe it; one must also have a good reason for doing so".

a)

True

b)

False

17.

It is a suspension of judgments about the existence or non-existence of the external world.

a)

Eidetic Reduction

b)

Transcendental Eidetic Reduction

c)

Epoché

d)

Eidos

18.

The Chinese way of thinking can be instituted by the following: synthetic, intuition, and historical.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

It is a method of descriptive investigation of pure consciousness by means of which increasingly refined description having the purpose of establishing the essence (eidos) of an object.

a)

Phenomenology

b)

Universal Methodic Doubt

c)

Nietzchean Pessimism

d)

Chinese Philosophy

20.

According to the Tripartite Theory of Knowledge, "knowledge must be justified true belief".

a)

True

b)

False

21.

Explain St. Edith Stein's Scholastic (Thomistic) Method.

4 lines
22.

Explain the Socratic Method.

4 lines
23.

Explain the Nietzchean Pessimism.

4 lines
24.

Explain Descartes' Universal Methodic Doubt.

4 lines