BYUI 311 PSYCH "ISMS" Question and
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Empiricism - correct answer ✔The Belief that the basis of all knowledge is experience.
Determinism - correct answer ✔Nothing we can achieve by conscious act of will alters the will to life
within us. There is no free will. -- Christopher Janaway
Rationalism - correct answer ✔All our reasoning is nothing but the joining and substituting of
characters, whether these characters be words or symbols or pictures, ... if we could find characters or
signs appropriate for expressing all our thoughts as definitely and as exactly as arithmetic expresses
numbers or geometric analysis expresses lines, we could in all subjects in so far as they are amenable to
reasoning accomplish what is done in Arithmetic and Geometry.
---Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
Indeterminism - correct answer ✔How can a mind turn in upon itself and observe its own operations
when it is forced by its very nature to observe in terms of its own categories? Is there any sense in
turning up the light to see what the darkness looks like?
--Immanuel Kant
Interdeterminism - correct answer ✔The contention that even though there are causes associated with
certain effects attempting to measure those causes influences them, making it impossible to know them
with certainty.
Vitalism - correct answer ✔For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He is unborn,
eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.
---Bhagavad Gita
Rationalism - correct answer ✔The belief that knowledge can be attained only be engaging in some
type of systematic mental activity.
answer rated A+ 2025/2026
Empiricism - correct answer ✔The Belief that the basis of all knowledge is experience.
Determinism - correct answer ✔Nothing we can achieve by conscious act of will alters the will to life
within us. There is no free will. -- Christopher Janaway
Rationalism - correct answer ✔All our reasoning is nothing but the joining and substituting of
characters, whether these characters be words or symbols or pictures, ... if we could find characters or
signs appropriate for expressing all our thoughts as definitely and as exactly as arithmetic expresses
numbers or geometric analysis expresses lines, we could in all subjects in so far as they are amenable to
reasoning accomplish what is done in Arithmetic and Geometry.
---Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
Indeterminism - correct answer ✔How can a mind turn in upon itself and observe its own operations
when it is forced by its very nature to observe in terms of its own categories? Is there any sense in
turning up the light to see what the darkness looks like?
--Immanuel Kant
Interdeterminism - correct answer ✔The contention that even though there are causes associated with
certain effects attempting to measure those causes influences them, making it impossible to know them
with certainty.
Vitalism - correct answer ✔For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He is unborn,
eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.
---Bhagavad Gita
Rationalism - correct answer ✔The belief that knowledge can be attained only be engaging in some
type of systematic mental activity.
