PHIL 201 Exam 2 Liberty University
Question and answers verified to pass
2025
Common Sense Skepticism - correct answer ✔An antidote for gullibility
Philosophical Skepticism - correct answer ✔The tendency to doubt
philosophical claims
Absolute Skepticism - correct answer ✔Doubt the very possibility of
knowledge
The claim made by Pyrrhonian skepticism - correct answer ✔We cannot
know anything, the best we can do is say "it appears so"
Self-Refuting Proposition - correct answer ✔If it is true, then it is false
Absolute skepticism rests on the self-refuting proposition that... - correct
answer ✔...we cannot know anything
Who are our present day skeptics? - correct answer ✔Postmodernists
What do Marxism and Postmodernsim share? - correct answer ✔A desire to
change society, and a disregard for truth
What displaces truth as their primary interest? - correct answer ✔Power
, The relationship of nominalism and postmodernism - correct answer
✔Postmodernism denies that there are objectively given essences of which
our knowledge must give account. Things are what we name them.
The basis for postmodernism's claim that all experience is "theory-laden" -
correct answer ✔Different Gestalts are possible, therefore all of reality is a
subjective construction
The basis for its view that truth is dependent on conceptual framework, and
that many such frameworks are possible - correct answer ✔The idea that
people are shut up in prisons of subjectivity
The postmodern criterion of truth - what is it? - correct answer ✔Consensus
Alvin Plantinga's critique of postmodernism's criterion of truth - correct
answer ✔There is no proposition that is not potentially true in some
hypothetical community
More important cirteria for truth - correct answer ✔Correspondence
Comprehensiveness/Fruitfulness
Elegance
Coherence
Analytic Truths - correct answer ✔Truths about our words
Synthetic Truths - correct answer ✔Truths about our world
A Priori Truths - correct answer ✔Truths known prior to experience
Question and answers verified to pass
2025
Common Sense Skepticism - correct answer ✔An antidote for gullibility
Philosophical Skepticism - correct answer ✔The tendency to doubt
philosophical claims
Absolute Skepticism - correct answer ✔Doubt the very possibility of
knowledge
The claim made by Pyrrhonian skepticism - correct answer ✔We cannot
know anything, the best we can do is say "it appears so"
Self-Refuting Proposition - correct answer ✔If it is true, then it is false
Absolute skepticism rests on the self-refuting proposition that... - correct
answer ✔...we cannot know anything
Who are our present day skeptics? - correct answer ✔Postmodernists
What do Marxism and Postmodernsim share? - correct answer ✔A desire to
change society, and a disregard for truth
What displaces truth as their primary interest? - correct answer ✔Power
, The relationship of nominalism and postmodernism - correct answer
✔Postmodernism denies that there are objectively given essences of which
our knowledge must give account. Things are what we name them.
The basis for postmodernism's claim that all experience is "theory-laden" -
correct answer ✔Different Gestalts are possible, therefore all of reality is a
subjective construction
The basis for its view that truth is dependent on conceptual framework, and
that many such frameworks are possible - correct answer ✔The idea that
people are shut up in prisons of subjectivity
The postmodern criterion of truth - what is it? - correct answer ✔Consensus
Alvin Plantinga's critique of postmodernism's criterion of truth - correct
answer ✔There is no proposition that is not potentially true in some
hypothetical community
More important cirteria for truth - correct answer ✔Correspondence
Comprehensiveness/Fruitfulness
Elegance
Coherence
Analytic Truths - correct answer ✔Truths about our words
Synthetic Truths - correct answer ✔Truths about our world
A Priori Truths - correct answer ✔Truths known prior to experience
