Deck 5: The Sources of Knowledge

Question 1

Descartes believed that our knowledge of was derived from our senses.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Rationalism is the view that

A) All knowledge is acquired through reason
B) No knowledge can be acquired through the senses
C) Reason can arrive at some knowledge
D) Reason can arrive at all knowledge

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Who did not rely on God to save him from skepticism?

A) Descartes
B) Locke
C) Berkeley
D) Hume

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Who offered a view now termed transcendental idealism?

A) Kant
B) Berkeley
C) Hume
D) Locke

Question 5

Locke believed that there was no difference between primary and secondary qualities.

Question 6

Descartes methodological point of departure was

A) Empiricism
B) Rationalism
C) Skepticism
D) Theism

Question 7

Shankara developed the idea of "sublation".

Question 8

Locke was an empiricist.

Question 9

Anne Conway was an empiricist.

Question 10

Martin Luther launched the Protestant revolution.

Question 11

Who claimed that the claim that the world must conform to the mind was a kind of Copernican revolution in knowledge?

A) Hume
B) Locke
C) Descartes
D) Kant

Question 12

According to Kant, statements that give us information about the world are

A) Synthetic statements
B) Analytic statements
C) Skeptical statements
D) Agnostic statements

Question 13

Carried to an extreme Berkeley's thinking can become

A) Rationalism
B) Atheism
C) Solipsism
D) Materialism

Question 14

What, according to Shankara, was real?

A) The self
B) The world
C) Ultimate reality
D) Ultimate knowledge

Question 15

Who was a Romantic philosopher?

A) Kant
B) Copernicus
C) Hegel
D) Humboldt

Question 16

Berkeley was an atheist

Question 17

Who compared the mind to a blank slate?

A) John Locke
B) Francis Bacon
C) Rene Descartes
D) Thomas Aquinas

Question 18

Leibniz held that innate ideas were tendencies.

Question 19

Berkeley was an empiricist.

Question 20

The critical realists rejected Locke's epistemology.

Question 21

____________________ is the view that only I exist and that everything else is just a creation of my subjective consciousness.

Question 22

Knowledge that does not depend on sense experience is ____________________ ____________________ knowledge.

Question 23

____________________ developed the view that is now known as transcendental idealism.

Question 24

____________________ claimed that both rationalists and empiricists take partial notions for real parts.

Question 25

____________________ refers to the processes of seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, and tasting.

Question 26

Locke held that ____________________ qualities are subjective.

Question 27

In what way does Kant's account of knowledge combine elements of both rationalism and empiricism? Do you believe that Kant is successful in overcoming Humean skepticism? Explain your answer.

Question 28

Descartes' methodological departure is an attitude of ____________________ and skepticism.

Question 29

Are there any differences between Descartes' skepticism and that of Hume? If you think that there are, outline them, and explain how they might have contributed to the different epistemological views of these two philosophers. If you think that there are no such differences between the skepticisms of these two philosophers, provide an explanation of how their respective epistemologies are so different from each other.

Question 30

Empiricism is the view that ____________________ can be obtained only through sense experience.

Question 31

In what way does Descartes' rationalism require the existence of a benevolent God? Do you believe that Descartes has successfully established the existence of this God, or do you think that his arguments for God's existence are circular, resting as they do on his "clear and distinct" perceptions whose veridicality seems to be given by God's benevolence?

Question 32

____________________ ____________________ are ideas that are present in the mind from birth.

Question 33

How might the event described in Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" be used to undermine empiricism?

Question 34

Critical realists hold that only ____________________ ____________________ is present in the consciousness of objects.

Question 35

Do you agree with Hume that we cannot know whether our ideas about reality are accurate? What assumption does Hume make when he makes this claim? Do you believe that this assumption is justified?