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WorksheetsHUMSS 2 (Philosophy Assessment 2)
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
It is a fallacy which suggests that unlikely or ridiculous outcomes are likely to happen when there’s just not enough evidence to think so.
Strawman
Hasty Generalization
Slippery Slope
Equivocation
Making assumptions about a whole group or range of cases based on a sample that is inadequate. What fallacy is being defined in this statement?
Equivocation
Strawman
Slippery Slope
Hasty Generalization
The fallacy of attempting to induce acceptance of an unexamined or unproved conclusion by arousing the feelings, prejudices, or interests of political party, mob, or any large group of people.
Ad Hominem Fallacy
Ad Misericordiam Fallacy
Ad Populum Fallacy
Ad Baculum Fallacy
This fallacy is appeal to emotion. It is an argument used by people who want to win people over by manipulating their emotions. This is a favorite tactic of politicians during campaign period.
Ad Hominem Fallacy
Equivocation
Ad Baculum or Appeal to Force Fallacy
Ad Misericordiam or Appeal to Pity Fallacy
This is a fallacy of relevance where someone rejects or criticizes another person’s view on the basis of personal characteristics, background, physical appearance, or other features irrelevant to the argument at issue.
Ad Hominem Fallacy
Ad Misericordiam or Appeal to Pity
Appeal to People or Bandwagon
Ad Baculum of Appeal to Force
What method of philosophizing that is an act of talking back and forth, disagreeing with one another, and arguing about contentious issues?
Socratic Method
Dialectic Method
Scientific Method
Historical Method
It is something that has actual and proven existence scientifically and spiritually regardless of one's opinion and beliefs. It is undisputed, objective, universal, constant, exact, and factual.
Truth
Fact
Opinion
Knowledge
It is an expression of one's feelings based on facts, emotions, beliefs, or views. It is not based on evidence.
Truth
Knowledge
Opinion
Fact
What do you call a group of statements that serve to support a conclusion?
Argument
Premise
Conclusion
Hypothesis
It is one of the methods of philosophizing which is known to be the art of questioning because is approach is to inquire or to cross-examine.
Socratic Method
Dialectic Method
Scientific Method
Historical Method
What is the most important point of holistic approach?
Realities of grammar and language
Speculations and pure opinions
Relevance of the parts to understand the whole
Priority of the wholeness of being over its parts
What is the difference between reductionist and holistic approach?
Tools
Focus
Topic
Action
It is the belief that human behavior can be explained by breaking it down into simpler component parts.
Analytic
Speculative
Holistic
Reductionist
Who among the following Philosophers is a proponent of the concept of pragmatism as the study of practical knowledge?
John Dewey
Aristotle
Plato
Rene Descartes
All ASASHS female students are beautiful. Lyca is an ICT student of ASASHS. Therefore, Lyca is beautiful. This argument is and example of what method of acquiring knowledge in epistemology?
Phenomenological
Induction
Pragmatism
Deduction
Some philosophers believe that general ideas are formed from the examination of particular facts. What method is employed in this kind of generating idea?
Induction
Deduction
Metaphysical
Pragmatism
Who was the philosopher who devised the first logical method?
Thales
Plato
Socrates
Aristotle
A branch of Philosophy deals with what is right or wrong.
Aesthetics
Logic
Ethics
Metaphysics
Merna was busy doing her tasks in preparing for the coming fiesta in their barangay. What help could you give to Merna? What branch of Philosophy is appropriate to use in this scenario?
Ethics
Epistemology
Metaphysics
Aesthetics
Who is the Philosopher who pointed out that knowledge is not merely theoretical nor speculative but also practical?
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Thales
What are the two classification of the branches of Philosophy?
Logic and Normative
Normative and Descriptive
Cognitive and Normative
Cognitive and Descriptive
What branch of Philosophy that accounts on our moral judgments?
Aesthetics
Ethics
Metaphysics
Epistemology
It is one of the method used in Epistemology which the the value or the practical use of knowledge is the real and meaning truth and meaning.
Phenomenology
Rationalism
Empiricism
Pragmatism
Who was the Philosopher who is known of his metaphysical concept about the reality and appearance of which he stated that our real experience with the world is just a product of our perception through the mind?
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Rene Descartes
What kind of principle states that from which something proceeds in any manner?
First cause or Highest Principles
Principle of Noncontradiction
Principle of excluded middle
Principle of Identity
the study of knowledge, truth, and the nature of ultimate reality.
Philosophy
Anthropology
Theology
Psychology
This branch of philosophy studies the concept of knowledge.
Metaphysics
Logic
Epistemology
Ethics
Which is NOT a requirement of knowledge:
Love
Belief
Justification
Reason
Nothing exists without ______________.
Being
Reason
Experience
Relation
Philosophy employs First Cause or Highest Principle, which of this principle states that it is an impossibility for a particular thing to be and not to be at the same time at the same respect?
Non-contradiction
Identity
Excluded Middle
Sufficient Reason
Plato was a student to which philosopher?
Aristotle
Socrates
Thomas Aquinas
Rene Descartes
Which of the following is the primary goal of Philosophy?
To acquire knowledge
To make wisdom
To validate argument
To study life
According to Plato, what is knowledge?
A justified true belief
That which can be proven
There is no such thing as true knowledge
Opinion
This is a an argument used by people who want to win a conflict by issuing threats to their opponents.
Ad Baculum Fallacy
Ad Populum Fallacy
Ad Misericordiam Fallacy
Ad Hominem Fallacy
This is a defect that will weaken an argument. What do you call this?
Argument
Premise
Conclusion
Fallacy
It is the process of gathering evidences, examining them, and formulating ideas about the past to come up with present truths.
Historical method
Dialectic method
Scientific method
Socratic method
A method of philosophizing which acquiring of knowledge or determining of truth is through experimentation.
Scientific
Socratic
Dialectic
Historical
What do you call the process of determining the truth or drawing a conclusion from a statement using various philosophical methods?
Search for truth
Scientific Research
Methods of Philosophizing
Epistemological Truth
A philosopher that introduced reductionism in the modern times.
René Descartes
John Locke
Immanuel Kant
Charles Darwin
What is the meaning of the Greek word Holos?
Hole
Whole
Holiday
Hallway
What branch of Philosophy that deals with the validity of knowledge?
Logic
Epistemology
Aesthetics
Ethics
"Whatever it is, it is; whatever is not, is not." What principle of Highest Principle does this statements imply?
Principle of Identity
Principle of Non-contradiction
Principle of Excluded Middle
Principle of Sufficient Reason
What benefits we could get from studying aesthetical knowledge?
It vitalizes our knowledge in appreciating the works of arts and our culture.
It leads us to understand what is real.
It helps us validates between right and wrong.
It gives us deep meaning of what is true knowledge.
A branch of Philosophy which is used as a tool to guide one's arguments of discourses so as to keep them valid and true.
Ethics
Metaphysics
Epistemology
Logic
What makes a bad decision bad? A question that falls under the branch of Philosophy called _________.
Ethics
Logic
Aesthetics
Epistemology
The study of Truth or Knowledge. What branch of Philosophy does this talks about?
Logic
Metaphysics
Ethics
Epistemology
Philosophy is considered as ____________________ in its approach of study.
Holistic
Opinionated
Subjective
Superstitious
What is the primary tool of investigation for Philosophy?
belief of oneself
human experience
natural light of reason
past experience
Philosophy comes from the Greek philosophia, meaning what?
Lover of questions
Love of wisdom
Love of soapboxes
Lover of philosophy
What does sophia means?
love
beautiful
wisdom
knowledge
