PHIL 201 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE, ALREADY
GRADED A+.
In Gettier's two cases, what is true about Smith?
He gets the job
He has 10 coins in his pocket
In Gettier's two cases, what is true about Brown?
He is in Barcelona
Gettier's says his cases show that the JTB theory does not state a ___________ condition for
someone's knowing a given proposition.
Sufficient
True or false: In Gettier's story, Smith knows where Brown is.
False
The name of the city that Socrates and Meno discuss directions to is _________.
Larissa
According to Socrates, a person who has a true opinion of the directions to a place is a worse guide
than a person who knows the directions to a place.
False
Socrates says that the statues sculpted by Daedalus have a tendency to do what if they are not tied
down?
Run away
Socrates and Meno are discussing the difference between . and .
Opinion & Knowledge
According to Socrates, knowledge differs from correct opinion because knowledge is
_______________.
Tied down
According to Nozick, "there are difficulties with the causal account of knowledge, most noticeably
with... knowledge and ... knowledge, but elsewhere as well."
Casual, Mathematical, Ethical
Nozick's task is to formulate conditions for knowledge where each condition is ... and all the
conditions are jointly ... for knowledge.
Necessary & Sufficient
, Nozick's third condition is:
If p weren't true, S wouldn't believe that p.
Weren't
Wouldnt
True or False: According to Nozick, the person floating in a tank who has been made to believe that he
or she is floating in a tank knows that he or she is floating in a tank.
False
Nozick says, "To know is to have a belief that _________ the truth."
Tracks
In order to force himself to doubt the truth of everything he has believed, Descartes's meditator
decides to "stubbornly and firmly persist" in supposing that there is a _____________.
Demon
Fill in the blank: "So after considering everything very thoroughly, I must finally conclude that this
proposition, ________________, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in
my mind."
I am, I exist
Fill in the blank: "At last I have discovered it--________; this alone is inseparable from me."
Thought
True/False: According to Descartes, the soul is "something tenuous, like a wind or fire or ether, which
permeated my more solid parts."
FAlse
Fill in the blanks: "For even if, as I have supposed, none of the objects of imagination are real, the
power of ... is something which really exists and is part of my ..."
Imagination
imagination
Thinking
When the piece of wax is put near the fire, what quality does it keep?
Its extension
Fill in the blank: Moore's proof of an external world is "the combination of certain gestures with
saying the words 'Here is one _______ and here is another'."
Hand
True/False: Moore thinks one must know the premises to have a valid proof.
GRADED A+.
In Gettier's two cases, what is true about Smith?
He gets the job
He has 10 coins in his pocket
In Gettier's two cases, what is true about Brown?
He is in Barcelona
Gettier's says his cases show that the JTB theory does not state a ___________ condition for
someone's knowing a given proposition.
Sufficient
True or false: In Gettier's story, Smith knows where Brown is.
False
The name of the city that Socrates and Meno discuss directions to is _________.
Larissa
According to Socrates, a person who has a true opinion of the directions to a place is a worse guide
than a person who knows the directions to a place.
False
Socrates says that the statues sculpted by Daedalus have a tendency to do what if they are not tied
down?
Run away
Socrates and Meno are discussing the difference between . and .
Opinion & Knowledge
According to Socrates, knowledge differs from correct opinion because knowledge is
_______________.
Tied down
According to Nozick, "there are difficulties with the causal account of knowledge, most noticeably
with... knowledge and ... knowledge, but elsewhere as well."
Casual, Mathematical, Ethical
Nozick's task is to formulate conditions for knowledge where each condition is ... and all the
conditions are jointly ... for knowledge.
Necessary & Sufficient
, Nozick's third condition is:
If p weren't true, S wouldn't believe that p.
Weren't
Wouldnt
True or False: According to Nozick, the person floating in a tank who has been made to believe that he
or she is floating in a tank knows that he or she is floating in a tank.
False
Nozick says, "To know is to have a belief that _________ the truth."
Tracks
In order to force himself to doubt the truth of everything he has believed, Descartes's meditator
decides to "stubbornly and firmly persist" in supposing that there is a _____________.
Demon
Fill in the blank: "So after considering everything very thoroughly, I must finally conclude that this
proposition, ________________, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in
my mind."
I am, I exist
Fill in the blank: "At last I have discovered it--________; this alone is inseparable from me."
Thought
True/False: According to Descartes, the soul is "something tenuous, like a wind or fire or ether, which
permeated my more solid parts."
FAlse
Fill in the blanks: "For even if, as I have supposed, none of the objects of imagination are real, the
power of ... is something which really exists and is part of my ..."
Imagination
imagination
Thinking
When the piece of wax is put near the fire, what quality does it keep?
Its extension
Fill in the blank: Moore's proof of an external world is "the combination of certain gestures with
saying the words 'Here is one _______ and here is another'."
Hand
True/False: Moore thinks one must know the premises to have a valid proof.
