PHI 101 Final Exam/ 143 Questions with
Certified Answers.
T/F: Innate ideas are truths that are not derived from observation or experiment. -
Answer: True
T/F: Descartes cautioned against relying too much on authoritarian thinking. -
Answer: True
T/F: Descartes placed much weight on common sense. - Answer: True
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,T/F: Descartes rejected sense knowledge as a sufficient foundation for certainty. -
Answer: True
T/F: Descartes argued that the idea of God is acquired from experience. - Answer:
False
T/F: Descartes was the first philosopher to study the process of thinking itself. -
Answer: True
T/F: Descartes believed that we are born with certain ideas implanted in us by
God. - Answer: True
Descartes made a radical proposal: ____________________. - Answer: Throw out
everything we know, and build a system of knowledge based on careful
application of a rational method.
According to Descartes, ____________________ are truths that are not derived
from observation or experiment. - Answer: innate ideas
The ____________________ theory of truth is the truth test in which new or
unclear ideas are evaluated in terms of rational consistency and in relation to
already established truths. - Answer: coherence
Descartes held that true ideas are ____________________ and
____________________. - Answer: clear; distinct
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, Descartes thought that ____________________ is essential for finding the truth. -
Answer: method
Descartes attacked earlier philosophy on the grounds that it
____________________. - Answer: did not demand rational comprehension from
the individual intellect
In order to reach his target audience, Descartes wrote in ____________________.
- Answer: everyday French
____________________ is the name of the Cartesian strategy of deliberately
doubting everything it is possible to doubt in the least degree and accepting as
true only what can be known with absolute certainty. - Answer: Methodic Doubt
Descartes' standard of truth rests on ____________________. - Answer: his
insistence that all ideas recognized clearly and distinctly are true
"All triangles have 180 degrees" is an example of ____________________
knowledge. - Answer: a priori
"My shirt is white" is an example of ____________________ knowledge. -
Answer: a posteriori
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Certified Answers.
T/F: Innate ideas are truths that are not derived from observation or experiment. -
Answer: True
T/F: Descartes cautioned against relying too much on authoritarian thinking. -
Answer: True
T/F: Descartes placed much weight on common sense. - Answer: True
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,T/F: Descartes rejected sense knowledge as a sufficient foundation for certainty. -
Answer: True
T/F: Descartes argued that the idea of God is acquired from experience. - Answer:
False
T/F: Descartes was the first philosopher to study the process of thinking itself. -
Answer: True
T/F: Descartes believed that we are born with certain ideas implanted in us by
God. - Answer: True
Descartes made a radical proposal: ____________________. - Answer: Throw out
everything we know, and build a system of knowledge based on careful
application of a rational method.
According to Descartes, ____________________ are truths that are not derived
from observation or experiment. - Answer: innate ideas
The ____________________ theory of truth is the truth test in which new or
unclear ideas are evaluated in terms of rational consistency and in relation to
already established truths. - Answer: coherence
Descartes held that true ideas are ____________________ and
____________________. - Answer: clear; distinct
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, Descartes thought that ____________________ is essential for finding the truth. -
Answer: method
Descartes attacked earlier philosophy on the grounds that it
____________________. - Answer: did not demand rational comprehension from
the individual intellect
In order to reach his target audience, Descartes wrote in ____________________.
- Answer: everyday French
____________________ is the name of the Cartesian strategy of deliberately
doubting everything it is possible to doubt in the least degree and accepting as
true only what can be known with absolute certainty. - Answer: Methodic Doubt
Descartes' standard of truth rests on ____________________. - Answer: his
insistence that all ideas recognized clearly and distinctly are true
"All triangles have 180 degrees" is an example of ____________________
knowledge. - Answer: a priori
"My shirt is white" is an example of ____________________ knowledge. -
Answer: a posteriori
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