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HUMSS 2 (Philosophy Assessment 2)

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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.

a)

Strawman

b)

Hasty Generalization

c)

Slippery Slope

d)

Equivocation

2.

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?

a)

Equivocation

b)

Strawman

c)

Slippery Slope

d)

Hasty Generalization

3.

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.

a)

Ad Hominem Fallacy

b)

Ad Misericordiam Fallacy

c)

Ad Populum Fallacy

d)

Ad Baculum Fallacy

4.

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.

a)

Ad Hominem Fallacy

b)

Equivocation

c)

Ad Baculum or Appeal to Force Fallacy

d)

Ad Misericordiam or Appeal to Pity Fallacy

5.

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.

a)

Ad Hominem Fallacy

b)

Ad Misericordiam or Appeal to Pity

c)

Appeal to People or Bandwagon

d)

Ad Baculum of Appeal to Force

6.

What method of philosophizing that is an act of talking back and forth, disagreeing with one another, and arguing about contentious issues?

a)

Socratic Method

b)

Dialectic Method

c)

Scientific Method

d)

Historical Method

7.

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.

a)

Truth

b)

Fact

c)

Opinion

d)

Knowledge

8.

It is an expression of one's feelings based on facts, emotions, beliefs, or views. It is not based on evidence.

a)

Truth

b)

Knowledge

c)

Opinion

d)

Fact

9.

What do you call a group of statements that serve to support a conclusion?

a)

Argument

b)

Premise

c)

Conclusion

d)

Hypothesis

10.

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.

a)

Socratic Method

b)

Dialectic Method

c)

Scientific Method

d)

Historical Method

11.

What is the most important point of holistic approach?

a)

Realities of grammar and language

b)

Speculations and pure opinions

c)

Relevance of the parts to understand the whole

d)

Priority of the wholeness of being over its parts

12.

What is the difference between reductionist and holistic approach?

a)

Tools

b)

Focus

c)

Topic

d)

Action

13.

It is the belief that human behavior can be explained by breaking it down into simpler component parts.

a)

Analytic

b)

Speculative

c)

Holistic

d)

Reductionist

14.

Who among the following Philosophers is a proponent of the concept of pragmatism as the study of practical knowledge?

a)

John Dewey

b)

Aristotle

c)

Plato

d)

Rene Descartes

15.

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?

a)

Phenomenological

b)

Induction

c)

Pragmatism

d)

Deduction

16.

Some philosophers believe that general ideas are formed from the examination of particular facts. What method is employed in this kind of generating idea?

a)

Induction

b)

Deduction

c)

Metaphysical

d)

Pragmatism

17.

Who was the philosopher who devised the first logical method?

a)

Thales

b)

Plato

c)

Socrates

d)

Aristotle

18.

A branch of Philosophy deals with what is right or wrong.

a)

Aesthetics

b)

Logic

c)

Ethics

d)

Metaphysics

19.

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?

a)

Ethics

b)

Epistemology

c)

Metaphysics

d)

Aesthetics

20.

Who is the Philosopher who pointed out that knowledge is not merely theoretical nor speculative but also practical?

a)

Socrates

b)

Plato

c)

Aristotle

d)

Thales

21.

What are the two classification of the branches of Philosophy?

a)

Logic and Normative

b)

Normative and Descriptive

c)

Cognitive and Normative

d)

Cognitive and Descriptive

22.

What branch of Philosophy that accounts on our moral judgments?

a)

Aesthetics

b)

Ethics

c)

Metaphysics

d)

Epistemology

23.

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.

a)

Phenomenology

b)

Rationalism

c)

Empiricism

d)

Pragmatism

24.

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?

a)

Socrates

b)

Plato

c)

Aristotle

d)

Rene Descartes

25.

What kind of principle states that from which something proceeds in any manner?

a)

First cause or Highest Principles

b)

Principle of Noncontradiction

c)

Principle of excluded middle

d)

Principle of Identity

26.

the study of knowledge, truth, and the nature of ultimate reality.

a)

Philosophy

b)

Anthropology

c)

Theology

d)

Psychology

27.

This branch of philosophy studies the concept of knowledge.

a)

Metaphysics

b)

Logic

c)

Epistemology

d)

Ethics

28.

Which is NOT a requirement of knowledge:

a)

Love

b)

Belief

c)

Justification

d)

Reason

29.

Nothing exists without ______________.

a)

Being

b)

Reason

c)

Experience

d)

Relation

30.

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?

a)

Non-contradiction

b)

Identity

c)

Excluded Middle

d)

Sufficient Reason

31.

Plato was a student to which philosopher?

a)

Aristotle

b)

Socrates

c)

Thomas Aquinas

d)

Rene Descartes

32.

Which of the following is the primary goal of Philosophy?

a)

To acquire knowledge

b)

To make wisdom

c)

To validate argument

d)

To study life

33.

According to Plato, what is knowledge?

a)

A justified true belief

b)

That which can be proven

c)

There is no such thing as true knowledge

d)

Opinion

34.

This is a an argument used by people who want to win a conflict by issuing threats to their opponents.

a)

Ad Baculum Fallacy

b)

Ad Populum Fallacy

c)

Ad Misericordiam Fallacy

d)

Ad Hominem Fallacy

35.

This is a defect that will weaken an argument. What do you call this?

a)

Argument

b)

Premise

c)

Conclusion

d)

Fallacy

36.

It is the process of gathering evidences, examining them, and formulating ideas about the past to come up with present truths.

a)

Historical method

b)

Dialectic method

c)

Scientific method

d)

Socratic method

37.

A method of philosophizing which acquiring of knowledge or determining of truth is through experimentation.

a)

Scientific

b)

Socratic

c)

Dialectic

d)

Historical

38.

What do you call the process of determining the truth or drawing a conclusion from a statement using various philosophical methods?

a)

Search for truth

b)

Scientific Research

c)

Methods of Philosophizing

d)

Epistemological Truth

39.

A philosopher that introduced reductionism in the modern times.

a)

René Descartes

b)

John Locke

c)

Immanuel Kant

d)

Charles Darwin

40.

What is the meaning of the Greek word Holos?

a)

Hole

b)

Whole

c)

Holiday

d)

Hallway

41.

What branch of Philosophy that deals with the validity of knowledge?

a)

Logic

b)

Epistemology

c)

Aesthetics

d)

Ethics

42.

"Whatever it is, it is; whatever is not, is not." What principle of Highest Principle does this statements imply?

a)

Principle of Identity

b)

Principle of Non-contradiction

c)

Principle of Excluded Middle

d)

Principle of Sufficient Reason

43.

What benefits we could get from studying aesthetical knowledge?

a)

It vitalizes our knowledge in appreciating the works of arts and our culture.

b)

It leads us to understand what is real.

c)

It helps us validates between right and wrong.

d)

It gives us deep meaning of what is true knowledge.

44.

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.

a)

Ethics

b)

Metaphysics

c)

Epistemology

d)

Logic

45.

What makes a bad decision bad? A question that falls under the branch of Philosophy called _________.

a)

Ethics

b)

Logic

c)

Aesthetics

d)

Epistemology

46.

The study of Truth or Knowledge. What branch of Philosophy does this talks about?

a)

Logic

b)

Metaphysics

c)

Ethics

d)

Epistemology

47.

Philosophy is considered as ____________________ in its approach of study.

a)

Holistic

b)

Opinionated

c)

Subjective

d)

Superstitious

48.

What is the primary tool of investigation for Philosophy?

a)

belief of oneself

b)

human experience

c)

natural light of reason

d)

past experience

49.

Philosophy comes from the Greek philosophia, meaning what?

a)

Lover of questions

b)

Love of wisdom

c)

Love of soapboxes

d)

Lover of philosophy

50.

What does sophia means?

a)

love

b)

beautiful

c)

wisdom

d)

knowledge