WorksheetsEpistemology Quiz
Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 38mins
According to Descartes, what is the foundation upon which he can build the rest of his knowledge?
Sensory perception
Primary and secondary qualities
Mathematical absolutes
Reason and thought
What did Descartes conclude as the only thing he can truly be sure of no matter if he is dreaming, or inebriated, or under the spell of an Evil Genius?
His senses.
Material objects exist.
He has innate ideas.
He is a thinking being.
What does John Locke believe is the primary source of knowledge?
Divine perception
Innate ideas
Reason
Sensory input
According to Locke, what are the two varieties of ideas?
Material and mental
Simple and complex
Primary and secondary
Innate and acquired
What is the central point of empiricism according to Berkeley and Locke?
Gaining knowledge through divine perception
Gaining knowledge through the senses
Gaining knowledge through reason
Gaining knowledge through innate ideas
According to Berkeley, what allows us to bridge our individual subjective realities to understand one another?
Divine perception
Material objects
Language and natural patterns
Innate ideas
What does Berkeley argue is the only thing we can know as real?
Divine perception
Innate ideas
Material objects
Our ideas and perceptions
What does Descartes conclude as the foundation of knowledge: the one truth to build from?
Innate ideas like substance and identity
I am a thinking being.
Our senses are the source of true knowledge.
God exists
What does Descartes believe is the primary source of error in human knowledge?
Lack of innate ideas
Reliance on sensory perception
Reliance on divine perception
Ignorance
Why must Berkeley rewrite his original argument esse est percipi (to be is to be perceived)?
What does Locke argue is the nature of human understanding?
It is derived from innate ideas
It is derived from sensory input
It is derived from divine perception
It is derived from reason
According to Berkeley, how does God communicate with humans?
Through innate ideas
Through a stream of sensory data
Through material objects
Through language and natural patterns
What does Descartes believe about the existence of the soul?
The soul is a material object
The soul is an innate idea
The soul is the self
The soul is a divine perception
What are the different types of complex ideas according to Locke?
Compound
Relations
Abstractions
Innate
The Forms
According to Locke, how are complex ideas formed?
By combining simple ideas
By divine perception
By innate ideas
By sensory input
Give an example of a compound idea, according to Locke. (A compound idea is created by bundling or combining simple ideas.)
Give an example of Locke's complex idea of "relations:"
One type of complex idea for Locke is abstractions. For example, what do you associate with the abstraction of "sour?"
How does Berkeley modify Locke's ideas of primary and secondary qualities?
What consequences arise when Berkeley collapses primary qualities into secondary?
Material things no longer exist.
All sense impressions and interpretations become mental processes.
The "out there" disappears.
Innate ideas are made possible again.
Berkeley becomes a rationalist rather than an empiricist philosopher.
According to Descartes, what are the three features of the mind?
According to Locke, our minds are a blank slate, or a
(a)
Identify Locke's secondary qualities for this fish.
Its eyes are staring into your soul
It smells faintly of feet
It feels strangely warm to the touch
It is 2.2 lbs
It is singular
Which of these are primary qualities for this fish, according to Locke?
It is at rest.
It is 11 inches long.
You think it weighs about the same as your textbook.
It is 3 inches high at its highest point.
It feels scaly.
What ideas do you associate with Descartes and his theories?
What ideas do you associate with Locke and his theories?
What ideas do you associate with Berkeley and his theories?
