PHIL 201 Final Exam Miller Iowa State
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2025
A __________ is a thousand-sided figure. - correct answer ✔chiliagon
According to Descartes, why can't God transmit ideas of corporeal things
"from a source other than corporeal things"? - correct answer ✔God would
be a deceiver, contradicting God's goodness.
Nature also teaches me, by these sensations of pain, hunger, thirst and so on,
that I am not merely present in my ______ as a __________ is present in a
________." - correct answer ✔body
sailor
ship
According to Descartes, what is the "proper purpose of the sensory
perceptions given me by nature"? - correct answer ✔To inform the mind of
what is beneficial or harmful to the union of mind and body.
Fill in the blanks: "The first observation I make at this point is that there is a
great difference between the mind and the body, inasmuch as the body is by
its very nature always _______, while the mind is utterly ________." - correct
answer ✔divisible
indivisible
Key points from Descartes Sixth Meditation - correct answer ✔-it is about the
difference between the mind and body
-all senses come involuntarily
,-the mind and body are intermingled
-only the pineal gland can send messages from the body to the mind
"the Matrix Hypothesis says that I am ___________ and have always been
_____________." - correct answer ✔envatted
Chalmers breaks the Matrix Hypothesis into which three hypotheses? - correct
answer ✔The Computational Hypothesis
The Mind-Body Hypothesis
The Creation Hypothesis
"If I am envatted, then the objects to which I refer (hair, Tucson, and so on)
are all made of _______." - correct answer ✔computer bits
According to Chalmers, Berkeley's idealism is similar to which view? - correct
answer ✔The God Hypothesis
True/False: Chalmers thinks that Putnam's view about brains in vats is
ultimately a red herring. - correct answer ✔true
Key points for Chalmers Matrix as Metaphysics - correct answer ✔-I am a
matrix and have always been in a matrix
-the metaphysical hypothesis is a hypothesis about the underlying nature of
reality
-if we are in a matrix, the matrix world is computed beneath the microscopic
level, below atoms. There may not be any tables, but these bits make up what
his brain interacts with as tables, the world can be created by others, but his
brain is still interacting with it
, Plato compares the interior of the cave to the "________ realm" and the
exterior of the cave to the "______ realm." - correct answer ✔visible
intelligible
True/False: The prisoners in the cave will welcome philosophers' teachings. -
correct answer ✔false
True/False: The philosopher is eager to educate the prisoners in the cave. -
correct answer ✔false
"Finally, I suppose, he'd be able to see the _____, not images of it in water or
some alien place, but the ____ itself, in its own place, and be able to study it."
- correct answer ✔sun
"A city whose prospective rulers are ______ eager to rule must of necessity
be most free from civil war." - correct answer ✔least
Key points from Plato Allegory of the Cave - correct answer ✔The 'Allegory
Of The Cave' is a theory put forward by Plato, concerning human perception.
Plato claimed that knowledge gained through the senses is no more than
opinion and that, in order to have real knowledge, we must gain it through
philosophical reasoning.
According to Berkeley, what are "a stone, a tree, a book, and the like sensible
things"? - correct answer ✔collections of ideas
"If we look but ever so little into our thoughts, we shall find it impossible for us
to conceive a ___________ except only between our ideas." - correct answer
✔likeness
Question and answers already passed
2025
A __________ is a thousand-sided figure. - correct answer ✔chiliagon
According to Descartes, why can't God transmit ideas of corporeal things
"from a source other than corporeal things"? - correct answer ✔God would
be a deceiver, contradicting God's goodness.
Nature also teaches me, by these sensations of pain, hunger, thirst and so on,
that I am not merely present in my ______ as a __________ is present in a
________." - correct answer ✔body
sailor
ship
According to Descartes, what is the "proper purpose of the sensory
perceptions given me by nature"? - correct answer ✔To inform the mind of
what is beneficial or harmful to the union of mind and body.
Fill in the blanks: "The first observation I make at this point is that there is a
great difference between the mind and the body, inasmuch as the body is by
its very nature always _______, while the mind is utterly ________." - correct
answer ✔divisible
indivisible
Key points from Descartes Sixth Meditation - correct answer ✔-it is about the
difference between the mind and body
-all senses come involuntarily
,-the mind and body are intermingled
-only the pineal gland can send messages from the body to the mind
"the Matrix Hypothesis says that I am ___________ and have always been
_____________." - correct answer ✔envatted
Chalmers breaks the Matrix Hypothesis into which three hypotheses? - correct
answer ✔The Computational Hypothesis
The Mind-Body Hypothesis
The Creation Hypothesis
"If I am envatted, then the objects to which I refer (hair, Tucson, and so on)
are all made of _______." - correct answer ✔computer bits
According to Chalmers, Berkeley's idealism is similar to which view? - correct
answer ✔The God Hypothesis
True/False: Chalmers thinks that Putnam's view about brains in vats is
ultimately a red herring. - correct answer ✔true
Key points for Chalmers Matrix as Metaphysics - correct answer ✔-I am a
matrix and have always been in a matrix
-the metaphysical hypothesis is a hypothesis about the underlying nature of
reality
-if we are in a matrix, the matrix world is computed beneath the microscopic
level, below atoms. There may not be any tables, but these bits make up what
his brain interacts with as tables, the world can be created by others, but his
brain is still interacting with it
, Plato compares the interior of the cave to the "________ realm" and the
exterior of the cave to the "______ realm." - correct answer ✔visible
intelligible
True/False: The prisoners in the cave will welcome philosophers' teachings. -
correct answer ✔false
True/False: The philosopher is eager to educate the prisoners in the cave. -
correct answer ✔false
"Finally, I suppose, he'd be able to see the _____, not images of it in water or
some alien place, but the ____ itself, in its own place, and be able to study it."
- correct answer ✔sun
"A city whose prospective rulers are ______ eager to rule must of necessity
be most free from civil war." - correct answer ✔least
Key points from Plato Allegory of the Cave - correct answer ✔The 'Allegory
Of The Cave' is a theory put forward by Plato, concerning human perception.
Plato claimed that knowledge gained through the senses is no more than
opinion and that, in order to have real knowledge, we must gain it through
philosophical reasoning.
According to Berkeley, what are "a stone, a tree, a book, and the like sensible
things"? - correct answer ✔collections of ideas
"If we look but ever so little into our thoughts, we shall find it impossible for us
to conceive a ___________ except only between our ideas." - correct answer
✔likeness
