WorksheetsWestern Philosophy practice test 2 (T/F)
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Epistemology mainly asks us to consider the question, how do we know anything.
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The objective and subjective aspects of beauty are necessarily interdependent.
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For Plato, the realm of ideas (the forms) are less real than those things seen in the visible world.
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Truth is the right relation between our words and our thoughts.
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All the fundamental values, according to Dr. Adler, are trans-cultural.
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Wisdom is a special kind of truth, but it is not the same as truth.
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According to Dr. Adler, pursuit of truth is the deepest human aspiration.
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Truth in Western cultures is fundamentally different from that of Eastern cultures.
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Because people were treated differently when the Declaration Of Independence was written, we know that the claim, "All
men are created equal" must be relative.
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Imagination, as such, is neither true nor false.
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"False knowledge" properly describes the situation where what was once believed to be true turns out to be false, as in, "People used to believe the earth was the center of the
universe, so that was false knowledge."
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The term "blind faith" is redundant, because all faith by definition is blind.
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There is more than one reality.
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"False knowledge" is a contradiction in terms.
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There are two aspects to history; Facts and Interpretation
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The words, "In my opinion" show that the claim is subjective.
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In class we proved that no claims can be truly objective, because everybody is different.
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If you truly believe anything, then it is "true for you."
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Parmenides was famous for saying, "Whatever is, is."
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Heraclitus was a monist.
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Heraclitus was famous for saying that everything that is, is in a state of flux.
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One opinion is just as good as any other.
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Truth is discovered, not created.
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Inferences are conclusions drawn by the receiver.
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All normative claims are matters of opinion.
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