PHIL 201 Exam 2 Unit 2 Epistemology
Ch. 7-10 Question and answers verified
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The word skepticism comes from the Greek word that means to reflect on,
consider, or examine - correct answer ✔True
According to Miller, the notion of relativity seems to have provided the basis
for Pyrrhonian skepticism - correct answer ✔True
Much of what we know about Pyrro of Elis comes from whom? - correct
answer ✔Diogenes Laertius
According to Plato, to whom did Pyrro incorrectly appeal his claim nothing was
certain, hence we must suspend judgement on all matters - correct answer
✔Socrates and Plato
Which figure before Plato taught a form of skepticism as absolute as can be
imagined? - correct answer ✔Gorgias
Rorty conceives of the mind as a "mirror of nature" that accurately reflects and
represents reality "out there." - correct answer ✔False
What are the two elements of Rorty's metaphilosophy? - correct answer
✔Pluralism and Historicism
Which type of philsopher "builds for eternity?" - correct answer ✔The
Systematic Philosopher
, Who said: "Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the
point is to change it." - correct answer ✔Marx
Rorty embraces foundationalism -- the view that knowledge has an ultimate
grounding. - correct answer ✔False
Which of the Star Trek series reflects the postmodern outlook? - correct
answer ✔The Next Generation Series
According to Stanley Grenz, which came first? - correct answer ✔The
Literary Theory called Deconstructionism
Which thinker called for the destruction of "onto-theology" (the attempt to give
ontological descriptions of reality)? - correct answer ✔Jacques Derrida
Which thinker gave a moral twist to postmodernism by contending that every
assertion of knowledge is an act of power that does violence to the thing
named? - correct answer ✔Michel Foucault
Who said: "Truth is what my peers will let me get away with saying?" - correct
answer ✔Richard Rorty
The word "empiricism" comes from the Greek word "empeiria," which means
"reason." - correct answer ✔False
Some of our knowledge is not about reality, but about the meanings of our
words or definitions - e.g., "A unicorn is a horned horse." Such statements: -
correct answer ✔Neither affirm nor deny the existence of anything, are
Ch. 7-10 Question and answers verified
to pass 2025
The word skepticism comes from the Greek word that means to reflect on,
consider, or examine - correct answer ✔True
According to Miller, the notion of relativity seems to have provided the basis
for Pyrrhonian skepticism - correct answer ✔True
Much of what we know about Pyrro of Elis comes from whom? - correct
answer ✔Diogenes Laertius
According to Plato, to whom did Pyrro incorrectly appeal his claim nothing was
certain, hence we must suspend judgement on all matters - correct answer
✔Socrates and Plato
Which figure before Plato taught a form of skepticism as absolute as can be
imagined? - correct answer ✔Gorgias
Rorty conceives of the mind as a "mirror of nature" that accurately reflects and
represents reality "out there." - correct answer ✔False
What are the two elements of Rorty's metaphilosophy? - correct answer
✔Pluralism and Historicism
Which type of philsopher "builds for eternity?" - correct answer ✔The
Systematic Philosopher
, Who said: "Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the
point is to change it." - correct answer ✔Marx
Rorty embraces foundationalism -- the view that knowledge has an ultimate
grounding. - correct answer ✔False
Which of the Star Trek series reflects the postmodern outlook? - correct
answer ✔The Next Generation Series
According to Stanley Grenz, which came first? - correct answer ✔The
Literary Theory called Deconstructionism
Which thinker called for the destruction of "onto-theology" (the attempt to give
ontological descriptions of reality)? - correct answer ✔Jacques Derrida
Which thinker gave a moral twist to postmodernism by contending that every
assertion of knowledge is an act of power that does violence to the thing
named? - correct answer ✔Michel Foucault
Who said: "Truth is what my peers will let me get away with saying?" - correct
answer ✔Richard Rorty
The word "empiricism" comes from the Greek word "empeiria," which means
"reason." - correct answer ✔False
Some of our knowledge is not about reality, but about the meanings of our
words or definitions - e.g., "A unicorn is a horned horse." Such statements: -
correct answer ✔Neither affirm nor deny the existence of anything, are
