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Quiz 4 - Quiz 4
Philosophy and Contemporary Ideas (Liberty
University)
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Course 201930 Summer 2019 PHIL 201-B07 LUO
Test Quiz 4
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Question 1
My belief is a justified belief if and only if it is, in fact, a
true belief.
3 out of 3
points
Selecte
d
Answer
:
Fal
s
e
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Question
2
3 out of 3
points
If a person thinks she has a moral responsibility to determine that any
belief she holds is based on sufficient evidence, that is, evidence that
strikes her as being based on indisputably good reasons or
arguments, she is likely representing the epistemological position of
Selecte
d
Answer
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Internalism
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Question 3
Externalism in epistemology is an approach to rationality which
argues that
3 out of 3
points
Selecte
d
Answer
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A person can be rational in relying on one’s memory, even if
a person cannot state how she knows her memory is
reliable.
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Question
4
0 out of 3
points
Select the one below that does NOT belong: To suggest that a person’s
approach to justification is internalist is to suggest that
Selecte
d
Answer
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A person may not be currently aware of the potential
evidence she has in support of a belief she holds.
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Question 5
Coherentism in epistemology is a position which
holds that a
3 out of 3
points
particular belief is justified for a person so long as that belief is
consistent with everything else that person holds to be true.
Selecte
d
Answer:
Tr
u
e
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Question 6
3 out of 3 points
Ginger believes that the dog she sees in her neighbor’s back yard is her
own Labrador Retriever named Sam. Since there are no other Labrador
Retrievers in the neighborhood fitting the same description as Sam, and
since the dog Ginger sees in her neighbor’s yard seems to recognize
Ginger’s voice when she calls out to it, Ginger quite naturally believes the
dog in her neighbor’s back yard is her dog Sam. It turns out, however, that
the dog in her neighbor’s back yard is in fact not Ginger’s dog but the
Labrador of a visiting relative of her neighbor. On an internalist account of
justification, since it turns out not to be true that Ginger saw her dog Sam
in her neighbor’s back yard, Ginger was not justified in believing it was her
own dog in the first place.
Selecte
d
Answer
:
Fal
s
e
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Question 7
Carefulness is an intellectual virtue that
helps us:
3 out of 3
points
Selecte
d
Answer
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Examine evidence with caution to avoid drawing poor inferences.
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Question 8
Intellectual courage helps
us to:
3 out of 3
points
Selecte
d
Answer
:
Stand strong against social pressure to suppress truth.
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Question
9
3 out of 3
points
Being intellectually virtuous helps us to avoid common mistakes in our
thinking that keeps us from knowledge.
Selecte
d
Answer
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True.
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Question
10
3 out of 3
points
Virtue epistemology generally focuses on being intellectually virtuous as
opposed to being absolutely certain.
Selecte
d
Answer:
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True.
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Question
11
3 out of 3
points
For Aristotle, the “Golden Mean” points to fixed and universal ethical
norms for all people to follow.
Selecte
d
Answer
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False.
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Question
12
3 out of 3
points
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Intellectual virtue is best described as:
Selecte
d
Answer
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A cognitive quality that allows us to think well.
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Question
13
3 out of 3
points
To suggest that we should suspend all judgments about any claim to
knowledge, is to suggest a softer and mitigated form of skepticism in
contrast to its more unmitigated expressions.
Selecte
d
Answer
:
Fal
s
e
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Question
14
3 out of 3
points
Sextus Empiricus adopted a version of Pyhrro’s skepticism mainly
because he believed that
Selecte
d
Answer
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Because we are plagued with doubts over opposing claims,
suspending judgment is a good way of being free from the unrest
that is often caused by such doubts.
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Question
15
3 out of 3
points
When the used car salesman tells Steve that the particular car he is
considering purchasing has less than fifteen thousand actual miles on it,
Steve is, quite naturally, a bit skeptical about this claim, particularly since
the car is over ten years old and looks a little worse for wear. In exhibiting
this level of doubt, Steve is expressing:
Selecte
d
Answer
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Common sense skepticism.
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Question
16
3 out of 3
points
Hume thinks that, while we may assume connections of causality (i.e.,
every event has a cause), we never actually perceive a necessary
connection of causality and therefore we cannot know a causal connection
has actually occurred.
Selecte
d
Answer
:
Tr
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e
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Question
17
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If Robert thinks that the only way in this world for a person to know
whether God exists is to have some kind of sensory experience of God,
along with an active mind that is able to process, structure and arrange
ones experiences in a way that makes sense to him, then Robert would be
following Kant in thinking that:
Selecte
d
Answer
:
It is impossible to gain knowledge of God by relying on our
sense perceptions.
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Question
18
3 out of 3
points
Rather than having certainty about our beliefs, it is more likely that we have
varying
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degrees of rational support for our beliefs.
Selecte
d
Answer
:
Tr
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e
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Question
19
Rene Descartes was
a:
3 out of 3
points
Selecte
d
Answer
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Global Skeptic
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Question 20
A major criticism that internalism raises against
externalism is:
3 out of 3
points
Selecte
d
Answer
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It ignores our epistemic obligations
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Question
21
David Hume was a:
3 out of 3
points
Selecte
d
Answer
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Local skeptic
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Question
22
Clifford was a:
3 out of 3
points
Selecte
d
Answer
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Radical evidentialist
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Question 23
Noetic structure refers
to:
3 out of 3
points
Selecte
d
Answer
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The relationships between the beliefs we hold
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Question 24
Your noetic
structure
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concerns only those beliefs that are actually true.
3 out of 3
points
Selecte
d
Answer
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Fal
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e
