Question 1
3 out of 3 points
Which of the following can be classified as a priori knowledge?
Selected Answer: Mathematics
Question 2
3 out of 3 points
Which of the following represents the key difference in thought from Descartes to Bacon?
Selected Answer: the inductive method
Question 3
3 out of 3 points
Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons that epistemologists are generally
hesitant to accept testimony as a source of knowledge:
Selected Answer: the egocentric predicament
Question 4
3 out of 3 points
,Plato holds that we obtain knowledge:
Selected Answer: through recollection
Question 5
3 out of 3 points
Plato was hesitant to build a theory of knowledge on the physical world because
Selected Answer: The physical world is always changing
Question 6
3 out of 3 points
The philosopher who arrived at certainty through a process of doubting all of his
knowledge was:
Selected Answer: Descartes
Question 7
3 out of 3 points
Which of the following is NOT one of the five sources of knowledge listed in Dew &
Foreman:
Selected Answer: Emotions
Question 8
3 out of 3 points
By “noumena” Kant is referring to:
Selected Answer: the raw sense data before it enters our mind
Question 9
3 out of 3 points
Which truth theory holds that a proposition is true if it matches reality:
Selected Answer: Correspondence Theory
Question 10
Rene Descartes was a:
, Selected Answer: Metaphysical skeptic (X)
Question 11
3 out of 3 points
Scientific anti-realism is the view that science does not claim objects like electrons
actually exist. They are just a fictional construct to explain how things work. This view
fits best with which truth theory:
Selected Answer: Pragmatic theory
Question 12
3 out of 3 points
The philosopher who believed we are born with innate “categories of understanding” was:
Selected Answer: Kant
Question 13
3 out of 3 points
Locke divided knowledge into matters of fact and relations of ideas.
Selected Answer: False
Question 14
3 out of 3 points
According to Morris, source skepticism questions:
Selected Answer: all of the above
Question 15
3 out of 3 points
Evidentialists hold that some propositions are self-evident.
Selected Answer: True
Question 16
3 out of 3 points
According to Morris, the principle of belief conservation refutes the evidentialist
principle.
Selected Answer: True
Question 17
3 out of 3 points