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
The moral-immoral distinction is ____________________. - Answer: prescriptive
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,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.
According to Kantian formalism, knowledge ____________________. - Answer: is
structured by categories
According to Kant, when a theory results in conclusions that are inconsistent with
experience, ____________________. - Answer: real-world evidence must
outweigh theoretical consistency
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, According to Kant, scientific method ____________________. - Answer: suggests
that knowledge is a kind of interaction between the knower and the known.
According to Kant, Hume confused ____________________ with knowledge that
is based on experience. - Answer: knowledge that is triggered by experience
____________________ is an effort to assess the nature and limits of "pure
reason" unadulterated by experience. - Answer: Critical philosophy
According to Kant, knowledge is formed by ____________________ and
____________________. - Answer: actual experience; faculties of judgement
____________________ is Kant's term for the world as we experience it. -
Answer: Phenomenal reality
Noumena are ____________________. - Answer: things as they exist
independently of us
According to Kant, transcendental ideas ____________________. - Answer:
bridge the gap between the phenomenal and noumenal worlds
According to Kant, regulative ideas ____________________. - Answer: are a
special type of transcendental ideas
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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
The moral-immoral distinction is ____________________. - Answer: prescriptive
Page 1 of 19
,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.
According to Kantian formalism, knowledge ____________________. - Answer: is
structured by categories
According to Kant, when a theory results in conclusions that are inconsistent with
experience, ____________________. - Answer: real-world evidence must
outweigh theoretical consistency
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, According to Kant, scientific method ____________________. - Answer: suggests
that knowledge is a kind of interaction between the knower and the known.
According to Kant, Hume confused ____________________ with knowledge that
is based on experience. - Answer: knowledge that is triggered by experience
____________________ is an effort to assess the nature and limits of "pure
reason" unadulterated by experience. - Answer: Critical philosophy
According to Kant, knowledge is formed by ____________________ and
____________________. - Answer: actual experience; faculties of judgement
____________________ is Kant's term for the world as we experience it. -
Answer: Phenomenal reality
Noumena are ____________________. - Answer: things as they exist
independently of us
According to Kant, transcendental ideas ____________________. - Answer:
bridge the gap between the phenomenal and noumenal worlds
According to Kant, regulative ideas ____________________. - Answer: are a
special type of transcendental ideas
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