Quiz 3
Question 1
3 out of 3 points
Hume was an example of a:
Selected
Answer: Hard empiricist
Question 2
3 out of 3 points
Epicureans held to empiricism because:
Selected
Answer: They believed all of reality was composed of atoms
Question 3
3 out of 3 points
Knowledge arrived at immediately:
Selected
Answer: Intuition
Question 4
3 out of 3 points
For Plato, the realm where things are constantly in a flux and changing is:
Selected
Answer: the world of
becoming
Question 5
3 out of 3 points
According to Plato, how do we gain genuine knowledge?
Selected
Answer:
through
recollection
Question 6
3 out of 3 points
By “Form” Plato is referring to the particular shape of an object of experience.
Selected
Answer:
Fals
e
Question 7
3 out of 3 points
The type of knowledge epistemology is primarily concerned with:
Selected
Answer:
Propositional
knowledge
Question 8
3 out of 3 points
According to the presentation on truth theories, Coherence is a sufficient condition for
truth, but it is not a necessary condition for truth.
Selected Fals
Answer: e
Question 9
3 out of 3 points
Locke divided knowledge into matters of fact and relations of ideas.
Selected
Answer:
Fals
e
Question 10
3 out of 3 points
Scientific anti-realism is the view that science does not claim objects like electrons
actually exist. They are just a fictional construct to explain how things work. This view fits
best with which truth theory:
Selected
Answer:
Pragmatic
theory
Question 11
3 out of 3 points
The liars paradox, which states “Everything I say is a lie” is a often cited as a problem for
which truth theory:
Selected
Answer:
Correspondence
theory
Question 12
3 out of 3 points
One problem with the coherence theory of truth is that it is not linked with the real world
but only systems of beliefs.
Selected
Answer:
Tru
e
Question 13
3 out of 3 points
Epistemology is concerned with all the following types of questions except:
Selected
Answer:
What is the nature of the
universe?
Question 14
3 out of 3 points
In response to the Gettier Problem, Keith Lerher and Thomas Paxson revise JTB as:
Selected
Answer:
Undefeated, justified, true,
belief.
Question 15
3 out of 3 points
Though there are a variety of different forms of justification, the best form is empirical
evidence.
Selected Fals
Answer: e.
Question 16
3 out of 3 points
Dew and Foreman claim that one minor concern with JTB is that the line between
justification and truth seems a bit vague.
Selected
Answer:
True
.
Question 17
3 out of 3 points
A sufficient condition is:
Selected
Answer:
A condition that if met will guarantee that something will
be the case.
Question 18
3 out of 3 points
As long as justification is present, one can be assured that he/she has real knowledge.
Selected
Answer:
Fals
e.
Question 19
3 out of 3 points
Which is not one of the ways the word “know” might be used?
Selected
Answer:
Knowledge by
Relationship.
Question 20
3 out of 3 points
Coherentism uses which metaphor to illustrate how our beliefs relate to each other?
Selected
Answer:
A spider’s
web.
Question 21
3 out of 3 points
Pragmatist theories of truth focus mostly how well a set of belief “work” for a particular
person.
Selected
Answer:
True
.
Question 22
3 out of 3 points
In coherentist theories of truth, the primary concern is how well (or consistently) one
belief fits with all the other beliefs within the system.
Selected True
Answer: .
Question 23
3 out of 3 points
The correspondence theory of truth is thought by some philosophers to be a pre-theoretic
intuition that we philosophize with, not to.
Selected
Answer:
True
.
Question 24
3 out of 3 points
The correspondence theory of truth holds that statements are true when they correspond
to the real state of affairs in the world.
Selected
Answer:
True
.
Question 25
3 out of 3 points
According to Dew and Foreman, if something exists, then something must be true of
about the things that exists.
Selected
Answer:
True
.
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