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Which of the following best describes John Locke’s argument against Descartes’ innate ideas?
Innate ideas are proven by mathematics.
All ideas come from experience, not from birth.
Innate ideas are necessary for language development.
Children are born with knowledge of God.
Locke’s two types of experience are:
Reason and logic
Memory and sensation
Sensation and reflection
Sensation and intuition
A primary quality is:
A quality that depends on the observer’s mind, like color.
A quality that exists independently of the observer, like shape.
A fictional property invented by the mind.
A quality that only God perceives.
A secondary quality according to Locke is:
Solidity
Texture
Color
Shape
How does Locke's idea of “substance” differ from Aristotle’s?
Locke thought substance was clearly knowable through reason.
Aristotle believed substance was unknowable.
Locke thought substance was a "something, I know not what" holding qualities together.
Aristotle thought substance was an illusion.
Locke’s representationalism differs from Aristotle’s direct realism because:
Locke thought we perceive ideas, not objects directly.
Aristotle thought perception was unreliable.
Locke denied the existence of physical objects.
Aristotle believed all perception is hallucination.
According to Locke, the self is:
A) A permanent, unchanging soul.
B) A collection of ideas and memories linked by consciousness.
C) An illusion created by society.
D) A rational mind separate from experience.
Locke’s dualism means he believed:
Mind and body are separate substances.
Mind and body are the same substance.
Only the mind exists.
Only the body exists.
What worried Bishop Berkeley the most about Locke’s representationalism?
It led to skepticism about the existence of the external world.
It proved the world was imaginary.
It made materialism the only philosophy.
It denied God’s existence.
What does “Esse est percipi” mean?
To exist is to imagine.
To exist is to remember.
To exist is to be perceived.
To exist is to think.
Subjective idealism is the belief that:
Only material substances exist.
Reality consists only of minds and their ideas.
The material world is the only reality.
God is a material object.
In Berkeley’s philosophy, God is important because:
A) God creates and sustains all ideas.
B) God destroys false perceptions.
C) God is not necessary for perception.
D) God proves the existence of atoms.
According to Hobbes, human beings are naturally:
A) Spiritual and rational.
B) Material and selfish.
C) Purely rational.
D) Mystical beings.
In Hume’s philosophy, impressions are:
Simple impressions differ from simple ideas because:
A) Impressions are fainter than ideas.
B) Impressions are vivid and ideas are less vivid copies.
C) Simple ideas are perceptions of the world.
D) Simple impressions are logical truths.
Complex impressions are:
Made up of many simple impressions combined.
Single perceptions like the color red.
Abstract ideas of existence.
Logical concepts without sensation.
Which of the following describes "relations of ideas" (a priori propositions)?
Based on experience and observation.
Known through reason alone, like mathematics.
Always uncertain and probable.
Cannot be known at all.
"Matters of fact" (a posteriori propositions) are:
A) Known purely by reason.
B) Certain beyond any doubt.
C) Based on experience and open to revision.
D) Mathematical truths.
Kant’s categories of understanding are:
Emotions we feel.
Basic concepts the mind uses to organize experience.
Ideas given directly by the senses.
Types of sense perception.
Kant’s transcendental idealism teaches that:
We know things exactly as they are in themselves.
Our mind shapes experience, and we can never know things-in-themselves.
Reality is entirely mental.
Only sensory data exists.
According to Hume, thoughts can be divided into perceptions and ideas
True
False
