Philosophy of Knowledge Test

Question 1

“with the eye of my soul, I saw”

Answer 1

Augustine

Question 2

the Trinity

Answer 2

Augustine

Question 3

Discourse on Method

Answer 3

Descartes

Question 4

“I am certain that I am a thing which thinks”

Answer 4

Descartes

Question 5

Treatise on Human Nature

Answer 5

Hume

Question 6

“Truths of Reasoning are necessary”

Answer 6

Leibniz

Question 7

“I know that I am”

Answer 7

Descartes

Question 8

“the mind is a white paper”

Answer 8

Locke

Question 9

“it is sometimes proved to me that those senses are deceptive”

Answer 9

Descartes

Question 10

Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Answer 10

Locke

Question 11

Against the Academics

Answer 11

Augustine

Question 12

Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

Answer 12

Berkley

Question 13

“accept noting as true which I did not clearly recognize to be so”

Answer 13

Descartes

Question 14

Critique of Pure Reason

Answer 14

Kant

Question 15

“some evil genius has employed his energies in deceiving me”

Answer 15

Descartes

Question 16

“distanced us from the philosophy of existence”

Answer 16

John Paul II

Question 17

Confessions

Answer 17

Augustine

Question 18

Meditations on First Philosophy

Answer 18

John Paul II

Question 19

“God who is… the fountain of truth”

Answer 19

Berkley

Question 20

“cogito agito factito”

Answer 20

Augustine

Question 21

Epistemology is based upon the Greek word meaning

Answer 21

Knowledge

Question 22

The Sophists believed that all knowledge is objective

Answer 22

true

Question 23

The Sophists were the first paid teachers

Answer 23

true

Question 24

The word sophist means

Answer 24

wise men

Question 25

Socrates believed that there is absolute and certain truth

Answer 25

true

Question 26

Plato claimed that knowledge is placed in the soul prior to birth

Answer 26

true

Question 27

The concept in the previous question is called the ___ theory

Answer 27

recollection

Question 28

In Plato's _____ of the cave the light represented truth

Answer 28

Allegory

Question 29

Augustine was born in Roman North Africa

Answer 29

true

Question 30

Augustine was a member of the ____ sect or cult for 9 years

Answer 30

Manichean

Question 31

Who of the following influenced Augustine

Answer 31

Cicero

Question 32

In a work directed against the teachers or academics, Augustine opposed their:

Answer 32

skepticism

Question 33

In this mathematical equation, Augustine saw truth:

Answer 33

7+3=10

Question 34

Augustine apparently saw the ____ as the "highest reasoning power"

Answer 34

mind

Question 35

In a writing, Augustine called these as part of the triad being; knowledge; will

Answer 35

i, ii, iii

Question 36

Descartes was educated by the Jesuits

Answer 36

true

Question 37

In his book, Discourse on ____ Descartes stated to "accept nothing as true"

Answer 37

Method

Question 38

Descartes doubt led to an epistemological

Answer 38

skepticism

Question 39

Which of the following is true of Descartes writings

Answer 39

all of the above

Question 40

Descartes doubts also included the existence of God

Answer 40

false

Question 41

Descartes declared "Cogito, ____"

Answer 41

ergo sum

Question 42

The quote in the previous question came from Meditation on ____

Answer 42

First Philosophy

Question 43

_____ is the belief that one is the only person in the unvierse

Answer 43

solipsism

Question 44

Descartes believed that the source of knowledge is reason

Answer 44

false

Question 45

The empiricists accepted Descartes demand for _____

Answer 45

certainty

Question 46

Which of the following is ture of John Paul II's critique on Descartes

Answer 46

(I)he inaugurated an anthropocentric shift (II) he distanced us from the philosophy of existence (IV) he turend his back on metaphysics

Question 47

He spoke of contingent and necessary truth

Answer 47

Leibniz

Question 48

the "tabula rasa" theory was proposed by Locke

Answer 48

true

Question 49

the philosopher in the previous question was a friend of Newton and was educated at Cambridge

Answer 49

false

Question 50

Kant developed the concept called "unity of _____

Answer 50

Consciousness