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: Kant's philosophical work began as a response to Hume's skepticism. -
Answer: True
T/F: Kant completed the "epistemological turn." - Answer: True
T/F: Kant argued that science alone could restore dignity to human beings. -
Answer: False
T/F: According to Kant, reason alone cannot give us knowledge of the external
world. - Answer: True
T/F: According to Kant, experience alone cannot give us knowledge of the external
world. - Answer: True
T/F: Kant's philosophy is called "critical philosophy" because it attacks and
criticizes other philosophies. - Answer: False
T/F: "Phenomenal reality" is Kant's term for the world as we experience it. -
Answer: True
T/F: "Noumenal reality" is Kant's term for phenomenal reality when we
understand it. - Answer: False
T/F: According to Kant, the idea of self is a regulative idea. - Answer: True
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, T/F: According to Kant, the idea of cause is a regulative idea. - Answer: False
T/F: According to Kant, we know God through reason, not experience. - Answer:
True
The moral-nonmoral distinction is ____________________. - Answer: descriptive
The moral-immoral distinction is ____________________. - Answer: prescriptive
The nature of the Critique of Pure Reason required Kant to
____________________. - Answer: coin new terms and give new meanings to old
ones
Kant understood that ____________________ must be refuted if Enlightenment
faith in reason was to be justified. - Answer: Hume
Kant rejected the supremacy of science over philosophy because
____________________. - Answer: science could only uncover mechanistic laws
which had no place for God, freedom, or moral dignity.
Kant's critique of knowledge is ____________________. - Answer: an analysis of
how knowledge is possible.
Kantian formalism is the theory that knowledge ____________________. -
Answer: is the result of the interaction between the mind and sensation.
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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: Kant's philosophical work began as a response to Hume's skepticism. -
Answer: True
T/F: Kant completed the "epistemological turn." - Answer: True
T/F: Kant argued that science alone could restore dignity to human beings. -
Answer: False
T/F: According to Kant, reason alone cannot give us knowledge of the external
world. - Answer: True
T/F: According to Kant, experience alone cannot give us knowledge of the external
world. - Answer: True
T/F: Kant's philosophy is called "critical philosophy" because it attacks and
criticizes other philosophies. - Answer: False
T/F: "Phenomenal reality" is Kant's term for the world as we experience it. -
Answer: True
T/F: "Noumenal reality" is Kant's term for phenomenal reality when we
understand it. - Answer: False
T/F: According to Kant, the idea of self is a regulative idea. - Answer: True
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, T/F: According to Kant, the idea of cause is a regulative idea. - Answer: False
T/F: According to Kant, we know God through reason, not experience. - Answer:
True
The moral-nonmoral distinction is ____________________. - Answer: descriptive
The moral-immoral distinction is ____________________. - Answer: prescriptive
The nature of the Critique of Pure Reason required Kant to
____________________. - Answer: coin new terms and give new meanings to old
ones
Kant understood that ____________________ must be refuted if Enlightenment
faith in reason was to be justified. - Answer: Hume
Kant rejected the supremacy of science over philosophy because
____________________. - Answer: science could only uncover mechanistic laws
which had no place for God, freedom, or moral dignity.
Kant's critique of knowledge is ____________________. - Answer: an analysis of
how knowledge is possible.
Kantian formalism is the theory that knowledge ____________________. -
Answer: is the result of the interaction between the mind and sensation.
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