PHI 101 Final Exam/ 143 Questions with Certified Answers.| 2025 LATEST
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T/F: Innate ideas are truths that are not derived from observation or experiment. - (answers)True
T/F: Descartes cautioned against relying too much on authoritarian thinking. - (answers)True
T/F: Descartes placed much weight on common sense. - (answers)True
T/F: Descartes rejected sense knowledge as a sufficient foundation for certainty. - (answers)True
T/F: Descartes argued that the idea of God is acquired from experience. - (answers)False
T/F: Descartes was the first philosopher to study the process of thinking itself. - (answers)True
T/F: Descartes believed that we are born with certain ideas implanted in us by God. -
(answers)True
Descartes made a radical proposal: ____________________. - (answers)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. - (answers)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. -
(answers)coherence
Descartes held that true ideas are ____________________ and ____________________. -
(answers)clear; distinct
, Descartes thought that ____________________ is essential for finding the truth. -
(answers)method
Descartes attacked earlier philosophy on the grounds that it ____________________. -
(answers)did not demand rational comprehension from the individual intellect
In order to reach his target audience, Descartes wrote in ____________________. -
(answers)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. - (answers)Methodic Doubt
Descartes' standard of truth rests on ____________________. - (answers)his insistence that all
ideas recognized clearly and distinctly are true
"All triangles have 180 degrees" is an example of ____________________ knowledge. -
(answers)a priori
"My shirt is white" is an example of ____________________ knowledge. - (answers)a posteriori
Descartes begins his Mediations by seeing if it is possible to ____________________. -
(answers)doubt everything
In the Mediations, Descartes rejects the reliability of sense knowledge by pointing out that
____________________. - (answers)this whole world might be a dream.
Descartes introduces ____________________ as a device to raise the possibility of ultimate
delusion. - (answers)the evil genius
"Cogito, ergo sum" is Latin for ____________________. - (answers)"I think, therefore I am"
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T/F: Innate ideas are truths that are not derived from observation or experiment. - (answers)True
T/F: Descartes cautioned against relying too much on authoritarian thinking. - (answers)True
T/F: Descartes placed much weight on common sense. - (answers)True
T/F: Descartes rejected sense knowledge as a sufficient foundation for certainty. - (answers)True
T/F: Descartes argued that the idea of God is acquired from experience. - (answers)False
T/F: Descartes was the first philosopher to study the process of thinking itself. - (answers)True
T/F: Descartes believed that we are born with certain ideas implanted in us by God. -
(answers)True
Descartes made a radical proposal: ____________________. - (answers)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. - (answers)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. -
(answers)coherence
Descartes held that true ideas are ____________________ and ____________________. -
(answers)clear; distinct
, Descartes thought that ____________________ is essential for finding the truth. -
(answers)method
Descartes attacked earlier philosophy on the grounds that it ____________________. -
(answers)did not demand rational comprehension from the individual intellect
In order to reach his target audience, Descartes wrote in ____________________. -
(answers)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. - (answers)Methodic Doubt
Descartes' standard of truth rests on ____________________. - (answers)his insistence that all
ideas recognized clearly and distinctly are true
"All triangles have 180 degrees" is an example of ____________________ knowledge. -
(answers)a priori
"My shirt is white" is an example of ____________________ knowledge. - (answers)a posteriori
Descartes begins his Mediations by seeing if it is possible to ____________________. -
(answers)doubt everything
In the Mediations, Descartes rejects the reliability of sense knowledge by pointing out that
____________________. - (answers)this whole world might be a dream.
Descartes introduces ____________________ as a device to raise the possibility of ultimate
delusion. - (answers)the evil genius
"Cogito, ergo sum" is Latin for ____________________. - (answers)"I think, therefore I am"
