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Descartes

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are the most important ideas in Cartesian Philosophy?

a)

Innate ideas

b)

Adventitious ideas

c)

Factitious ideas

d)

All ideas are the same

2.

Accepting the evidence rule forces Descartes to...

a)

Find a truth

b)

Demonstrate the existence of God

c)

Doubt

d)

None is right

3.

Types of ideas

(a)  

4.

The most important rule in Cartesian Method is...

(a)  

5.

The rules in Cartesian method are

(a)  

6.

The two consequences derived from the first truth are...

(a)  

7.

What are the main mistakes that Descartes wants to avoid with the evidence rule?

a)

Jumping to conclusion and preserving old opinions

b)

Fallacies

c)

The absence of an accurate method

d)

none is right

8.

What is the Cartesian solution to the previous mistakes?

a)

Scepticism

b)

Fallacies

c)

A method

d)

All are right

9.

Doctrine affirming that the only thing we can know with absolutely certainty is the mind is...

a)

Cogito ergo sum

b)

Scepticism

c)

Solipsism

d)

Rationalism

10.

I never admit anything as true unless I will be absolutely sure that is true. What rule is?

(a)  

11.

Perhaps reality is not like I perceive it because of...

(a)  

12.

Perhaps reality does not exist because of...

(a)  

13.

We can doubt about our deductive reason because of...

a)

Impossibility to distinguish dream and reality

b)

Fallacy of the senses

c)

Evil Genius

d)

All of them

14.

What arguments to demonstrate the existence of God are based on the idea of God?

a)

Imperfection and dependence of my soul

b)

ontological argument

c)

Argument based on the causality applied to the idea of God

d)

Green and yellow are true

15.

The idea of God is ...

a)

Factitious idea

b)

Innate idea

c)

Adventitious idea

d)

None is right

16.

The existence of God warrants ...

a)

The existence of the mind

b)

The existence of the soul

c)

The clarity and distinction of our ideas

d)

All are right

17.

An idea is true when it is...

(a)  

18.

What is the attribute of the res infinite? And refers to...

a)

Perfection and soul

b)

Thought and soul

c)

extension and world

d)

None is right

19.

Res cogitans refers to... and its attribute is ...

a)

Soul and extension

b)

Soul and thought

c)

World and extension

d)

None is right

20.

The only substance that strictly fulfil the concept is...

a)

Res infinite

b)

Res extensa

c)

Res cogitans

d)

All of them are right