WorksheetsTest 1 (2nd Quarter) Introduction to Philosophy 2023
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 45mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the book that Immanuel Kant wrote?
a)
Critique of Pure Reason
b)
Critique of Rationalism
c)
Critique of Empiricism
d)
Critique of Idealism
2.
Kant’s philosophy is an attempt to reconcile Rationalism with Empiricism. What are the two kinds of judgements he recognized?
a)
analytic or synthetic.
b)
simple or compound
c)
political of natural
d)
true or false
3.
What is the kind of judgment in which the predicate is contained in the subject and the truth of such judgments depends on the definition of its terms?
a)
analytic judgment
b)
synthetic judgment
c)
hypothetical judgment
d)
relative judgement
4.
What is the kind of judgment in which the predicate is not contained in the subject. The truth of such judgments depends on how the world really is?
a)
synthetic judgment
b)
analytic judgment
c)
hypothetical judgment
d)
relative judgement
5.
A ___________are not established through sense experience (apart from learning a language). They are necessary and universal. Example: “Triangles have three sides.”
a)
posteriori judgments
b)
priori judgments
c)
synthethic Judgement
d)
relative judgement
6.
A___________are established through sense experience. They are not necessary or universal. Example: “Mars has two moons.”
a)
priori judgments
b)
posteriori judgments
c)
synthethic Judgement
d)
relative judgement
7.
The analytic/synthetic distinction has to do with what makes a judgment true; the a priori/a posteriori distinction has to do with what makes a judgment _______________
a)
knowable
b)
desirable
c)
believable
d)
authenticated
8.
Kant called his philosophy transcendentalism idealism. It is _____________ because it goes beyond, or transcends sensation to those things that human reason contributes to knowledge. It __________because it makes objects of knowledge, and reality, dependent on the mind.
a)
transcendental, idealism
b)
idealism, motivism
c)
transcendental, motivism
d)
idealism, egoism
9.
Who is the young mathematician who thought it might be good to overthrow Aristotelian-Thomism altogether?
a)
Rene Descartes
b)
John Locke
c)
George Berkeley
d)
David Hume
10.
What is the Incoherence Objection?
a)
It is the Objection which explain that dream argument requires a distinction between wakefulness and sleep and it claims there is no such distinction.
b)
It is the Objection which explain that the Evil Demon argument uses illusion to undermine our confidence in sensation
c)
It explains that the existence of God guarantees that there is a material world that corresponds to our ideas..
d)
It explains that we had innate, synthetic a priori knowledge. Such knowledge is universal and necessary, but not limited to sense experience.
11.
What is the Sensation Objection?
a)
It is the Objection which explain that dream argument requires a distinction between wakefulness and sleep and it claims there is no such distinction.
b)
It is the Objection which explain that the Evil Demon argument uses illusion to undermine our confidence in sensation
c)
It explains that the existence of God guarantees that there is a material world that corresponds to our ideas..
d)
It explains that we had innate, synthetic a priori knowledge. Such knowledge is universal and necessary, but not limited to sense experience.
12.
What does Descartes mean I think therefore I am?
a)
He couldn’t doubt was himself as the subject of thought. As long as he was thinking, he knew for certain that he existed
b)
He doubt that he has the subject of thought. He is certain that he do not exist.
c)
He believed that he knows everything.
d)
He explained that we are rational being.
13.
What is the Latin word for I think therefore I am?
a)
Cojito, ergo sum.
b)
Covito ergo sum.
c)
Cojnito ergo sum.
d)
Ergo sum rationalis .
14.
What is the distinction Descartes drew between himself as an immaterial thinking thing, and his body as a material extended thing?
a)
Cartesian Dualism
b)
Cojito, ergo sum.
c)
Tabula rasa
d)
Incoherent objection
15.
What is the new philosophy of Descartes that knowledge is depended on the process of reason, rather than sensation?
a)
Empiricism
b)
Dualism
c)
Rationalism
d)
Egoism
16.
What is the view that knowledge of reality begins with sense experience?
a)
Empiricism
b)
Dualism
c)
Rationalism
d)
Egoism
17.
Who are the proponents of Empiricism?
a)
John Locke, George Berkely, and David Hume.
b)
St. Thomas John Locke, George Berkely,
c)
George Berkely, David Hume, St. Augustine and John Locke
d)
Soren Kierkegaard, John Locke and David Hume.
18.
Why is the question, “How are synthetic a priori judgments possible?” so important?
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19.
All humans are mammals.
a)
Analytic
b)
Synthetic
c)
A Priori
d)
A Posteriori
20.
If today is Tuesday, then today is not Thursday
a)
Analytic
b)
Synthetic
c)
A Priori
d)
A Posteriori
21.
God is about 4 feet tall and is sitting behind that tree.
a)
A Posteriori
b)
A Priori
c)
Analytic
d)
Synthetic
22.
Locke grouped ideas into two kinds: simple and complex. Give an example of each kind of idea.
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23.
How did Berkeley solve Locke’s problem? Briefly explain his argument
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24.
Identify and describe the three steps in Kant’s epistemology.
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25.
What are some of the good and bad aspects of Kant’s philosophy?
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26.
Before constructing his new philosophy, Descartes had to tear down the old one. He used both the Dream and Evil Demon Arguments to call into question the entire material world.
a)
True
b)
False
27.
Rationalism is the view that knowledge of reality begins with sense experience. Its main proponents were John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume
a)
True
b)
False
28.
For a judgment to be synthetic a priori, its truth would have to depend on how the world actually is, and it would have to be established apart from sense experience (making it necessary and universal
a)
True
b)
False
29.
The distinction Descartes drew between himself as an immaterial thinking thing, and his body as an extended thing, results in Caesarian Dualism (the view that soul and body are really distinct).
a)
True
b)
False
30.
For Descartes, there were only three kinds of substances: God, souls, and bodies. In the created world, there are only souls, and bodies. These two are completely distinct and independent
a)
True
b)
False
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