BRAIN STORY PROFESSIONAL CHILD
DEVELOPMENT PREP QUESTIONS AND
ACCURATE ANSWERS GRADED A+
●● Hobbes:
What is the function of speech for Hobbes?
Answer: Recalling past thoughts
Communicating with others
Registering thoughts
●● Hobbes:
How does Hobbes use the bible as evidence for his conclusions?
Answer: He refers to the Bible but then extends what it says by making
inferences.
●● Hobbes:
What are the uses of language according to Hobbes?
Answer: Convert thoughts into words
Create notes of remembrance
Create signs by which we can link our thoughts to others' thoughts
Link cause and effect
Advise and teach others
,Help others
Gain pleasure by playing with words or creating beautiful constructions
●● Hobbes:
What are the abuses of language according to Hobbes?
Answer: To register thoughts incorrectly
To use words metaphorically to deceive others
To lie
To hurt others with words
●● Hobbes:
How does language create universals according to Hobbes?
Answer: By using common nouns to define a category of things based
on a common quality
●● Hobbes:
How does language allow us to relate cause to effect?
Answer: By giving names to objects, we can link cause and effect in
words to cause and effect in objects.
●● Summary of Argument:
What is the relationship between claim and reason?
Answer: The claim follows logically from the reason.
,●● Summary of Argument:
What is the relationship between evidence and reason?
Answer: The evidence is something you can point to that demonstrates
the reason.
●● Summary of Argument:
What is the function of the warrant?
Answer: The warrant links the evidence to the claim.
●● Summary of Argument:
How does the reason relate to both evidence and claim?
Answer: The reason is the common attribute that is shared by both the
evidence and the claim.
●● Summary of Argument:
What is the relation of the warrant to the reason?
Answer: The warrant explains why the reason is a common attribute of
both the evidence and the claim.
●● Summary of Argument:
What would happen to an argument if the warrant were to change?
Answer: The same evidence would point to a different claim.
, ●● Summary of Argument:
Which of the following is false?
Answer: -The warrant describes the methodology of an argument.
-The warrant indicates what type of evidence is relevant for the
argument.
-The warrant describes how to interpret the evidence.
-The warrant does not have any relationships to the evidence
A: The warrant does not have any relationships to the evidence
●● Hobbes:
How does language make truth and falsehood possible?
Answer: Language links a subject to a predicate to make a proposition
that can be tested.
●● Hobbes:
What is the primary function of language?
Answer: To define concepts
●● Hobbes:
What does Hobbes think of books as a means of gaining knowledge?
DEVELOPMENT PREP QUESTIONS AND
ACCURATE ANSWERS GRADED A+
●● Hobbes:
What is the function of speech for Hobbes?
Answer: Recalling past thoughts
Communicating with others
Registering thoughts
●● Hobbes:
How does Hobbes use the bible as evidence for his conclusions?
Answer: He refers to the Bible but then extends what it says by making
inferences.
●● Hobbes:
What are the uses of language according to Hobbes?
Answer: Convert thoughts into words
Create notes of remembrance
Create signs by which we can link our thoughts to others' thoughts
Link cause and effect
Advise and teach others
,Help others
Gain pleasure by playing with words or creating beautiful constructions
●● Hobbes:
What are the abuses of language according to Hobbes?
Answer: To register thoughts incorrectly
To use words metaphorically to deceive others
To lie
To hurt others with words
●● Hobbes:
How does language create universals according to Hobbes?
Answer: By using common nouns to define a category of things based
on a common quality
●● Hobbes:
How does language allow us to relate cause to effect?
Answer: By giving names to objects, we can link cause and effect in
words to cause and effect in objects.
●● Summary of Argument:
What is the relationship between claim and reason?
Answer: The claim follows logically from the reason.
,●● Summary of Argument:
What is the relationship between evidence and reason?
Answer: The evidence is something you can point to that demonstrates
the reason.
●● Summary of Argument:
What is the function of the warrant?
Answer: The warrant links the evidence to the claim.
●● Summary of Argument:
How does the reason relate to both evidence and claim?
Answer: The reason is the common attribute that is shared by both the
evidence and the claim.
●● Summary of Argument:
What is the relation of the warrant to the reason?
Answer: The warrant explains why the reason is a common attribute of
both the evidence and the claim.
●● Summary of Argument:
What would happen to an argument if the warrant were to change?
Answer: The same evidence would point to a different claim.
, ●● Summary of Argument:
Which of the following is false?
Answer: -The warrant describes the methodology of an argument.
-The warrant indicates what type of evidence is relevant for the
argument.
-The warrant describes how to interpret the evidence.
-The warrant does not have any relationships to the evidence
A: The warrant does not have any relationships to the evidence
●● Hobbes:
How does language make truth and falsehood possible?
Answer: Language links a subject to a predicate to make a proposition
that can be tested.
●● Hobbes:
What is the primary function of language?
Answer: To define concepts
●● Hobbes:
What does Hobbes think of books as a means of gaining knowledge?
