STRAIGHTERLINE PHIL 101 INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY GRADED EXAM 1 - APRIL 2022

Page path • PHIL101_MH_V6 • Topic 3: Epistemology: The Search for Knowledge Started on Sunday, April 3, 2022, 5:12 PM State Finished Completed on Sunday, April 3, 2022, 5:26 PM Time taken 13 mins 49 secs Grade 175.00 out of 175.00 (100%) Feedback You’re off to a good start. A course grade of 70% is required to request a transcript. You’ve met that for the first exam already, but if you want to reattempt for a higher grade you can retake this assessment. Study hard for each exam, and consider using tutoring anytime you get stuck. Remember that 10 hours of tutoring are provided to you through your StraighterLine membership. Question 1 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Which of the following branches of philosophy does NOT involve questions related to values? Select one: a. Moral b. Metaphysics c. Social d. Political Question 2 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text _____ is defined as the philosophical study of art and of value judgments about art. Select one: a. Aesthetics b. Epistemology c. Logic d. Metaphysics Question 3 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text The fallacy of _____ amounts to transferring the qualities of a spokesperson to his or her insights, arguments, beliefs, or positions. Select one: a. red herring b. begging the question c. straw man d. argumentum ad hominem Question 4 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Thinking that a person's position is frightening because the person himself is frightening would be an obvious mistake in reasoning. This is an example of the fallacy of _____. Select one: a. argumentum ad hominem b. switching the burden of proof c. false dilemma d. reductio ad absurdum Question 5 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Thales, Anaximenes, and Anaximander are collectively known as the _____. Select one: a. Atomists b. Pythagoreans c. Milesians d. Particle Theorists Question 6 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and fundamental properties of _____. Select one: a. knowledge b. god c. beauty d. being Question 7 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Which of the following statements is true about Anaxagoras? Select one: a. He introduced into metaphysics an important distinction, that between matter and mind. b. He thought that basic particles were indivisible. c. He held that there were four different kinds of particles. d. He believed that particles were always in motion. Question 8 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Which is a theme common to all the pre-Socratics? Select one: a. Nothing changes. b. Everything is made of particles. c. The experienced world is a manifestation of a more fundamental underlying reality. d. True reality is unknowable. Question 9 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text The most famous dialogue of Plato is _____, from the so-called middle period of Plato's writings, during which Plato reached the peak of his genius. Select one: a. the Republic b. the Apology c. the Meno d. the Gorgias Question 10 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Which of the following statements would Plato have agreed with? Select one: a. The senses alone can provide knowledge. b. Physical objects are eternal, perfect, and unchanging. c. Man is the measure of all things. d. The senses are a source of error, illusion, and ignorance. Question 11 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Plato's three famous theories are as follows: Select one: a. the Theory of Forms, the Theory of Knowledge, and the Theory of the Oracle. b. the Theory of Fire and Becoming, the Tunnel Theory, and the Theory of Knowledge. c. the Theory of Becoming, the Theory of Relativity, and the Theory of the Absolute Truth. d. the Theory of Knowledge, the Theory of Love and Becoming, and the Theory of Forms. Question 12 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Which of the following is NOT one of the ten basic categories Aristotle used to describe the ways in which humans think about things? Select one: a. posture b. activity c. quality d. weight Question 13 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Aristotle's works include all of the following EXCEPT _____. Select one: a. the Confessions b. the Metaphysics c. the Poetics d. the Nicomachean Ethics Question 14 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Which of the following ancient traditions did Plotinus represent? Select one: a. Stoicism b. Epicureanism c. Skepticism d. Neoplatonism Question 15 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Which of the following views of Aristotle did Aquinas disagree with? Select one: a. Physical things are always a blend of matter plus form. b. The essence of a thing is the same as its existence. c. One and the same form (universal) can be in more than one physical thing (particular). d. Change is explained in terms of four causes: the formal, the material, the efficient, and the final. Question 16 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text According to Rene Descartes, "clarity and distinctness" was a mark of _____. Select one: a. God b. goodness c. truth d. rationality Question 17 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Some of Descartes's followers proposed a solution to the problem of how the immaterial mind interacts with the material body, given that the body is supposed to be subject to physical laws. The solution is called _____. Select one: a. parallelism b. Epicureanism c. determinism d. druidism Question 18 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Anne Conway advocated what sort of metaphysics? Select one: a. materialism b. idealism c. dualism d. monadology Question 19 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text What did George Berkeley mean about such things as tables and chairs when he denied the existence of matter? Select one: a. There are no unperceived tables and chairs. b. There are no tables and chairs. c. Tables and chairs are really just swarms of particles in motion. d. Everything, including tables and chairs, is an illusion. Question 20 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text The most famous monadology in the history of philosophy is that of _____. Select one: a. Thomas Hobbes b. Baron von Leibniz c. Benedictus de Spinoza d. Gottfried Wilhelm