STRAIGHTERLINE PHIL 101 INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY GRADED EXAM 2 - APRIL 2022

Page path • PHIL101_MH_V6 • Topic 8: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Continental Tradition Started on Sunday, April 3, 2022, 5:38 PM State Finished Completed on Sunday, April 3, 2022, 5:52 PM Time taken 14 mins 13 secs Grade 175.00 out of 175.00 (100%) Question 1 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text According to David Hume, what do we directly observe? Select one: a. physical objects b. sense impressions c. ourselves d. our brains Question 2 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text According to Immanuel Kant, perception is the: Select one: a. same as sense impressions. b. organizing principle of the mind. c. application of the organizing principles of the mind to sense impressions. d. direct awareness of noumenal objects. Question 3 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Why doesn't Kant think that we can have knowledge of the things-in-themselves (das Ding-an-sich)? Select one: a. because they have not yet been experienced b. because they are not physical in nature c. because they are not mental in nature d. because the organizing principles of the mind do not apply to them Question 4 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text According to the philosophy of Absolute Idealism, what is the relationship between "being real" and "being knowable"? Select one: a. No reality is knowable. b. All reality is knowable. c. Some reality is knowable and some aren't. d. Only God is ultimately unknowable. Question 5 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text According to David Hume, the self is a(n) _____. Select one: a. sequence of perceptions b. immaterial, unchanging substance c. physical body d. social entity Question 6 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text According to Hegel, the highest reality (the absolute) is _____. Select one: a. the entire material world b. a God who exists beyond the world c. an infinite thought thinking of itself d. a vast group of independent particulars Question 7 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Identify a true statement about Søren Kierkegaard. Select one: a. He scorned Hegel's system, in which the individual dissolves into a kind of abstract unreality. b. He read Arthur Schopenhauer and became convinced that the world is driven by cosmic will, not by reason. c. He believed that systematic philosophy, with its grandiose schemes, with its mind-body and other dualistic splits, with its metaphysics and metaphysical traditions, must give way to more original kind of thinking. d. He agreed with Friedrich Nietzsche as to the nature of the cosmic will. Question 8 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Who made the study of multiplicity the centerpiece of his thought? Select one: a. Michel Foucault b. Ferdinand de Saussure c. Jürgen Habermas d. Gilles Deleuze Question 9 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text For French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, what is culture? Select one: a. a system of signs b. a conversation c. a common heritage d. a common language Question 10 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text An authentic existence can be found, according to Heidegger, only if one can _____. Select one: a. believe in God b. believe in the superior man c. take responsibility for one's choices d. understand oneself as a totality Question 11 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text What would Jacques Derrida say about the definitive meaning of a text? Select one: a. He maintained that the definitive meaning of a text means whatever the author intended for it to mean. b. He maintained that the definitive meaning of a text means whatever the reader understands it to mean. c. He maintained that the definitive meaning of a text means whatever the majority of experts take it to mean. d. He maintained that no definitive meaning of a text could ever be established. Question 12 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Which of the following statements is true about Martin Heidegger? Select one: a. He was sympathetic to the Marxist worldview. b. He believed that, as a consequence of the nonexistence of God, nothing about Being is necessary. c. He abandoned his belief in Being as the basic principle of philosophy. d. He believed that people are basically ignorant about the thing that matters most—the true nature of Being. Question 13 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text What was the fundamental philosophical question for Albert Camus? Select one: a. Does God exist? b. Is there any reason not to commit suicide? c. What should I wear to my funeral? d. Will I survive death? Question 14 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text According to logical atomists, the world is a collection of: Select one: a. atomic facts. b. physical atoms. c. immaterial minds. d. sense-data. Question 15 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Which of the following is an ontological question? Select one: a. Do selves exist? b. Is torture justified? c. Is knowledge subjective? d. Do democracies lead to tyranny? Question 16 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Which of the following best expresses phenomenalism as a metaphysical theory? Select one: a. Physical objects don't exist, just sense-data. b. Sense-data don't exist, just physical objects. c. Sense-data are caused by, but not identical to, physical objects. d. Physical objects are definable in terms of sense-data. Question 17 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Necessary truths are: Select one: a. true statements that could be false. b. true statements that could not possibly be false. c. statements known to be true independently of any experience. d. statements known to be true through experience. Question 18 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text According to the logical positivists, which of the following determines the meaning of an assertion purporting to be about reality? Select one: a. the intentions of the writer or speaker b. the public definitions of the words involved c. the use to which the assertion is put d. the observations that verify it Question 19 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Which of the following perspectives is held by antirepresentationalists? Select one: a. Beliefs do not represent reality. b. True beliefs are those that hang together in a coherent fashion. c. True beliefs are those that most members of a group consent to. d. Beliefs correctly represent the world as it is. Question 20 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Which philosopher is associated with the idea of a language game? Select one: a. Russell b. Rorty c. Dewey d. Wittgenstein