Question 1

According to John Locke, our ideas of pain, pleasure, love, hate, thinking, and desiring fall under the category of

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A)   ideas of sensation.
B)   ideas of reflection.
C)   impressions.
D)   brain states.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 2

Knowing how to use a computer would be an example of knowledge by acquaintance.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

The word "epistemology" means "the science of knowing."

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

David Hume would call experiencing the redness of an apple _______, while the memory of its color would be _______.

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A)   an optical event/a brain event
B)   an impression/an idea
C)   an idea of sensation/ an idea of reflection
D)   reality/an appearanceE) A) and B)
F) B) and C) B

Question 5

Using examples, discuss the difference between analytic statements and synthetic statements.

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Question 6

Locke and Hume would say that the idea of God is

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A)   impossible apart from divine revelation.
B)   a simple idea.
C)   constructed from ideas derived from experience.
D)   unthinkable.E) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

Question 7

According to the text, 5 + 7 = 12 is an example of

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A)   a priori knowledge.
B)   a posteriori knowledge.
C)   knowledge by acquaintance.
D)   an empirical belief.E) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

Question 8

Hume said that since we have never experienced a gold mountain, we cannot have the thought of one.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Immanuel Kant thought it was possible to imagine a world without time, but impossible to imagine a world where fire was not hot.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Your knowledge of the town in which you grew up is

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A)   knowledge by acquaintance.
B)   competence knowledge.
C)   propositional knowledge.
D)   existential knowledge.E) C) and D)
F) All of the above

Question 11

Locke and Hume would say the idea of a unicorn is

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A)   an impression.
B)   a simple idea.
C)   a complex idea.
D)   an unthinkable idea.E) All of the above
F) B) and D)

Question 12

Which three philosophers are all rationalists?

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A)   Plato, John Locke, David Hume
B)   Immanuel Kant, A. J. Ayer, Plato
C)   Plato, Gottfried Leibniz, Immanuel Kant
D)   Gottfried Leibniz, John Locke, Immanuel KantE) All of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 13

Another name for a posteriori knowledge is

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A)   innate ideas.
B)   synthetic a priori knowledge.
C)   truths of reason.
D)   empirical knowledge.E) None of the above
F) All of the above

Question 14

Kant claimed that we could not have knowledge of the world as it really is, for we could only know how it appears.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

The claim that "I know that the sun will rise tomorrow" is an example of

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A)   knowledge by acquaintance.
B)   competence knowledge.
C)   propositional knowledge.
D)   existential knowledge.E) A) and C)
F) A) and B) C

Question 16

According to Kant's analysis, an example of synthetic a priori knowledge would be

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A)   "nothing red is green."
B)   "all copper conducts electricity."
C)   God's existence.
D)   a and c.E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 17

A posteriori knowledge is knowledge acquired independently of sense experience.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

"Mary is now a mother" is an example of

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A)   an analytic statement.
B)   a synthetic statement.
C)   synthetic a priori knowledge.
D)   an innate idea.E) A) and D)
F) All of the above B

Question 19

Discuss how a rationalist and an empiricist would differ in answering the following two questions: (1) How do we acquire ideas? (2) How is knowledge organized in the mind?

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Question 20

According to Kant's analysis, an example of analytic a priori knowledge would be

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A)   "nothing red is green."
B)   "all copper conducts electricity."
C)   "all bachelors are unmarried."
D)   a and bE) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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