Liberty University PHIL 201 quiz 5
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Question 1
By “high accessibility requirements” the internalist means:
Selected Answer: Through introspection I can obtain the reasons for my beliefs.
Question 2
The view in which the basing relationship between beliefs is
deductive: Selected Answer: Strong foundationalism
Question 3
Rene Descartes was a:
Selected Answer: Global
skeptic Question 4
According to externalism one must be aware of whether his cognitive processes are
functioning properly or not.
Selected Answer: False
Question 5
Coherentism holds that some beliefs are more foundational
than others. Selected Answer: False
Question 6
For Aristotle, the “Golden Mean” points to fixed and universal ethical norms for all
people to follow. Selected Answer: False.
Question 7
Thomas Aquinas thought that moral and intellectual virtues were
closely related. Selected Answer: True.
Question 8
The virtue of studiousness does not take into account the proper kinds of motives for seeking
knowledge. Selected Answer: False.
Question 9
Vices might be described as characteristics that are destructive in
nature. Selected Answer: True.
,Question 10
Discussions of vice and virtues tend to arise within which major area of
philosophy? Selected Answer: Ethics.
Question 11
What is the point of Descartes' evil demon argument?
Selected Answer: To demonstrate that all our beliefs about an external reality may be
false, since it is always possible that an evil demon is constantly working to deceive us
about what is real.
Question 12
According to Dew and Foreman, most rational people believe that it is extremely rarely for
our senses to mislead us.
Selected Answer: False
Question 13
To suggest that we should suspend all judgments about any claim to knowledge, is to suggest a
softer and mitigated form of skepticism in contrast to its more unmitigated expressions.
Selected Answer: False
Question 14
When Larry claims definitely and dogmatically that he knows we cannot know anything at all,
he is expressing:
Selected Answer: An obviouisly self-defeating claim
Question 15
Among some of the reasons why unmitigated skepticism is difficult for a person to
consistently hold as a serious philosophical position is because
Selected Answer: All of above.
Question 16
Ginger believes that the dog she sees in her neighbor’s back yard is her own Labrador
Retriever named Sam. Since there are no other Labrador Retrievers in the neighborhood
fitting the same description as Sam, and since the dog Ginger sees in her neighbor’s yard
seems to recognize Ginger’s voice when she calls
out to it, Ginger quite naturally believes the dog in her neighbor’s back yard is her dog Sam.
It turns out, however, that the dog in her neighbor’s back yard is in fact not Ginger’s dog but
the Labrador of a visiting relative of her neighbor. On an internalist account of justification,
since it turns out not to be true that Ginger saw her dog Sam in her neighbor’s back yard,
Ginger was not justified in believing it was her own dog in the first place.
Selected Answer: False
Question 17
While Clifford’s form of evidentialism may have its difficulties, most contemporary
epistemologists agree that it is, at the very least, not a selfdefeating position, and this is
part of what makes it a good option for epistemic justification.
Selected Answer: False
Question 18
Select the one below that is NOT a difficulty with W.K. Clifford’s approach to
evidentialism Selected Answer: It is certain that his approach to evidentialism reverts
to a form of reliabilism in knowledge.
Question 19
My belief is a justified belief if and only if it is, in fact, a true
belief. Selected Answer: False
Question 20
Those holding to some form of externalism in rationality tend to argue that, since it is
impossible for persons to have any cognitive access to the reasons and evidence that support
some of a person’s beliefs, internalists cannot be right with respect to their account of
justification for all beliefs.
Selected Answer: True
, Question
1 3 out of 3
points
The areas on knowledge that Descartes doubted include:
complete solutions correct answers key
Question 1
By “high accessibility requirements” the internalist means:
Selected Answer: Through introspection I can obtain the reasons for my beliefs.
Question 2
The view in which the basing relationship between beliefs is
deductive: Selected Answer: Strong foundationalism
Question 3
Rene Descartes was a:
Selected Answer: Global
skeptic Question 4
According to externalism one must be aware of whether his cognitive processes are
functioning properly or not.
Selected Answer: False
Question 5
Coherentism holds that some beliefs are more foundational
than others. Selected Answer: False
Question 6
For Aristotle, the “Golden Mean” points to fixed and universal ethical norms for all
people to follow. Selected Answer: False.
Question 7
Thomas Aquinas thought that moral and intellectual virtues were
closely related. Selected Answer: True.
Question 8
The virtue of studiousness does not take into account the proper kinds of motives for seeking
knowledge. Selected Answer: False.
Question 9
Vices might be described as characteristics that are destructive in
nature. Selected Answer: True.
,Question 10
Discussions of vice and virtues tend to arise within which major area of
philosophy? Selected Answer: Ethics.
Question 11
What is the point of Descartes' evil demon argument?
Selected Answer: To demonstrate that all our beliefs about an external reality may be
false, since it is always possible that an evil demon is constantly working to deceive us
about what is real.
Question 12
According to Dew and Foreman, most rational people believe that it is extremely rarely for
our senses to mislead us.
Selected Answer: False
Question 13
To suggest that we should suspend all judgments about any claim to knowledge, is to suggest a
softer and mitigated form of skepticism in contrast to its more unmitigated expressions.
Selected Answer: False
Question 14
When Larry claims definitely and dogmatically that he knows we cannot know anything at all,
he is expressing:
Selected Answer: An obviouisly self-defeating claim
Question 15
Among some of the reasons why unmitigated skepticism is difficult for a person to
consistently hold as a serious philosophical position is because
Selected Answer: All of above.
Question 16
Ginger believes that the dog she sees in her neighbor’s back yard is her own Labrador
Retriever named Sam. Since there are no other Labrador Retrievers in the neighborhood
fitting the same description as Sam, and since the dog Ginger sees in her neighbor’s yard
seems to recognize Ginger’s voice when she calls
out to it, Ginger quite naturally believes the dog in her neighbor’s back yard is her dog Sam.
It turns out, however, that the dog in her neighbor’s back yard is in fact not Ginger’s dog but
the Labrador of a visiting relative of her neighbor. On an internalist account of justification,
since it turns out not to be true that Ginger saw her dog Sam in her neighbor’s back yard,
Ginger was not justified in believing it was her own dog in the first place.
Selected Answer: False
Question 17
While Clifford’s form of evidentialism may have its difficulties, most contemporary
epistemologists agree that it is, at the very least, not a selfdefeating position, and this is
part of what makes it a good option for epistemic justification.
Selected Answer: False
Question 18
Select the one below that is NOT a difficulty with W.K. Clifford’s approach to
evidentialism Selected Answer: It is certain that his approach to evidentialism reverts
to a form of reliabilism in knowledge.
Question 19
My belief is a justified belief if and only if it is, in fact, a true
belief. Selected Answer: False
Question 20
Those holding to some form of externalism in rationality tend to argue that, since it is
impossible for persons to have any cognitive access to the reasons and evidence that support
some of a person’s beliefs, internalists cannot be right with respect to their account of
justification for all beliefs.
Selected Answer: True
, Question
1 3 out of 3
points
The areas on knowledge that Descartes doubted include:
