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1
Gettier's second example relies on what in logic
negation (it is not the case that)
equivalence (if and only if)
disjunction (or)
conjunction (and)
2
Which of these would have an essential nature in definition
Dessert
Gold
Weed
Table
3
Which are Locke’s arguments against innatism?
“Universals” aren’t known by children and idiots
It isn’t a relation of ideas or matter of fact
They’re based on non-natural entities
An evil demon could be deceiving us
4
Which type of doubt has practical consequences?
Philosophical doubting
Normal Incredulity
5
"How can that which is sensible be 'like' that which is insensible?" Is a statement of...
John Locke's Reductionism
Berkeley's Likeness Principle
Berkeley's Idealism
Berkeley's Master Argument
6
(According to indirect realist) What qualities do sense data have?
Represent Physical Objects
Physical
Mental
Public
Subjective
Undoubtable
7
What are the conditions of knowledge for virtue epistemology
Reliable Process
Belief
Intellectual Virtue
Truth
No false lemma
Justification
8
According to Descartes which process gives us 'clear and distinct' ideas
Abductive
Intuition
Deduction
Induction
9
Karl Popper Argues The mind is not like a bucket but a...
Flashlight
Searchlight
block of marble
Spade
10
How does no false lemmas try to fix JTB
Strengthens J to being unable to be doubted
Replaces J for another condition
Denies that JTB are conditions of knowledge
Adds another condition (N)
11
Which philosopher lived 1646 - 1716
Rene Descartes
John Locke
George Berkeley
Gottfried Leibniz
12
When did G.E Moore write: A defence of Common Sense
1867
1754
1957
1925
13
Which philosopher lived 1685 - 1753
John Locke
Gottfried Leibniz
Rene Descartes
George Berkeley
14
How does Idealism explain the continuing existence of objects?
The ideas are always perceived by God
There is a physical object beyond the ideas
There never was an object
The objects disappear when we leave the room
15
Who gets the job in the first Gettier example?
Smith
Brown
Jones
Gettier
16
What are the two arguments for Plato's innatism
Truth of Mathematics
Principle of Sufficient Reason
Existence of Universials
Tri-partite view of knowledge
17
What is David Hume's response to solipsism?
Ockham's Razor would suggest
I have a mind, other people look like me, therefore they must have minds
We are psychologically incapable of accepting it
The coherence of the world means there must be more than just me
18
According to Descartes which process gives us 'clear and distinct' ideas
Induction
Abductive
Intuition
Deduction
19
Which ancient Greek is associated with pessimistic doubt?
Plato
Scorates
Pyrrho of Ellis
Thales of Miletus
20
Which of these is a
descriptive
definition?
Set a correct standard for the word then see if anything can meet it
Look how the word is used in ordinary usage
21
Which of the follow describes propositional knowledge?
Knowing how
Knowing that
Knowing who
Knowing of
22
Which are Locke's arguments against scepticism of the external world critique of indirect realism?
Involuntary nature
Coherence of Experience
Ockham's Razor
God wouldn't allow it
23
Finish the John Searle Quote: "From the fact that I can give a casual account of how it comes about that I see the real
world, it doesn't follow that I don't see the real world directly."
world, it follows that I don't see the world directly."
24
Coherentism can be linked to which philosopher?
G.E Moore
Ludwig Wittgenstein
David Hume
Quine
25
What does Gettier's paper try to show?
B is not necessary
J is not necessary
T is not necessary
JTB is not sufficient
26
What did Noam Chompsky argue was innate
Patterns of Grammar
Anarchy
Categories of thought
Systems of Morality
27
Who accepts "sense-data"?
Direct Realists
Indirect Realists
28
Primary Qualities Have (Multi-select)
Accessible by one sense
Experience resembles them
Can be measure/quanitified
Exist in the mind
Experience doesn't resemble them
Exist in the object
29
Which philosopher lived 384BCE - 322BC
Plato
Socrates
Aristotle
Thales
30
The 'Ordinary Language' response to philosophical scepticism builds on the philosophy of which person?
W. V. Quine
G. E Moore
Ludwig Wittgenstein
David Hume
31
Who argued for Perceptual Variation as an attack on direct realism
Bertrand Russell
Descartes
David Hume
John Locke
32
Condillac Statue is in Support of Which Tradition
Empiricists
Rationalists
33
Which philosopher is the Tripartite view attributed to?
Locke
Plato
Kant
Descartes
Socrates
Aristotle
34
What is Epistemology
Study of what we can know
Study of what there is.
Study of how people behave
Study of what has value
35
Who proposes "Barn County" the Gettier-style example where Henry is driving through an odd neighbourhood
Alvin Goldman
Edmund Gettier
Laurence Bonjour
Linda Zagzebski
36
Solipsism is...
we can only know that God exists
we can only know that our mind exists
we cannot know that God exists
we can only know that other minds exist
37
What famous hallucination gets used as an example
Macbeth's Dagger
Seeing a mirage of an Oasis
Visions of Virigin Mary
Taking LSD
38
According to Hume Impressions are
Fuzzy and Confused
Forceful and Vivid
39
Who argued that the mind could be like a block of Veined Marble
G.W. Leibniz
David Hume
Rene Descartes
Immanuel Kant
Plato
John Locke
40
Which philosopher lived 1872 - 1970
Immanuel Kant
Bertrand Russell
George Berkeley
David Hume
41
What century did Descartes live? (Specifically when meditations was published)
19th Century (1800 - 1899)
17th Century (1600 - 1699)
16th Century (1500 - 1599)
18th Century (1700 - 1799)
42
One of the problems with Descartes
intuition and deduction thesis
is called the Cartesian __________
Triangle
Square
Circle
Pentagon
43
Which dialogue is Plato's Slave Boy Argument
Nicomachean Ethics
The Republic
The Meno
The Cleitophon
44
Which philosopher lived 470BCE - 399BC
Socrates
Aristotle
Thales
Plato
45
For Bertrand Russell Sense Data is like a ...
Map
Diagram
super computer
a pair of glasses
46
How does
Reliabilism
try to fix JTB
Adds another condition (N)
Replaces J for another condition
Strengthens J to being unable to be doubted
Denies that JTB are conditions of knowledge
47
What is an infinite regress?
The idea that the world is on the back the back of a giant turtle
Indefinite sequence of steps without a first member
An really long regress
The first member of a definite series of steps
48
What are the two prongs of Hume's Fork
Matters of Fact
Inductive reasoning
Relation of Ideas
Analytic statements
49
Who argued for Illusion being an issue with 'naive realism'
Bishop George Berkely
David Hume
John Locke
Rene Descartes
50
Which type of doubt has the property of being hypothetical
Normal Incredulity
Philosophical doubting
51
Which female philosopher refutes the argument from physics
Catherine Trotter Cockburn
Patricia Churchland
Susan Stebbing
Mary Wollencraft
52
Who argued for Perceptual Variation as an attack on direct realism
John Locke
Descartes
David Hume
Bertrand Russell
53
What is Berkeley's Master Argument
Thinking of a mind-indepentent object is self-refuting
Idealism preserves human freedom
We all live in the mind of God
Sensations must be like other sensations
54
Who argues that the mind is a tabula rasa
Immanuel Kant
Rene Descartes
John Locke
G.W Leibniz
55
What is an analytic statement?
A statement that is true in this world by happenchance.
A statement that's true in all possible worlds.
A statement where the predicate is contained in the subject.
A statement where the subject is contained in the predicate.
56
Ernst Sosa's Virtue Epistemology says a claim is knowledge if it's a Triple A shot. What are the three As
Accuracy
A long way away
Adroitness
Aim
Antagonising
Aptness
57
Which type of doubt has the property of being local
Philosophical doubting
Normal Incredulity
58
What kind of reasoning does Bertrand Russell use when arguing in favour of the external world
Deductive
Analogical
Inductive
Abductive
59
Which of the following are known a priori?
Analytic Truths
Science
Maths
Contingent Truths
Synthetic Truths
Logic
60
Setting a correct standard for the word then see if anything can meet it is what kind of definition
Normative
Descriptive
Explainative
Prescriptive
61
Which famous author tried to refute Idealism by kicking a stone
John Milton
Jonathan Swift
Dr Johnson
Alexander Pope
62
According to Hume, which concepts fail Hume's Fork?
Logic
Maths
Evolution
Soul
God
Self
63
The Tripartite theory of knowledge has which three conditions
Truth
Reliable Process
Knowledge
Observation
Justification
Belief
64
Which philosopher lived 1724 - 1804
Bertrand Russell
George Berkeley
Immanuel Kant
David Hume
65
Which are Locke's arguments against scepticism of the external world critique of indirect realism?
Ockham's Razor
God wouldn't allow it
Coherence of Experience
Involuntary nature
66
What illustration does John Locke use in explaining Primary Qualities and Secondary Qualities
An apple in a draw
A cat
A kettle
Grain of Wheat
67
Which philosopher lived 1632 - 1716
George Berkeley
John Locke
Rene Descartes
Gottfried Leibniz
68
Which of the follow describes acquaintance knowledge
Knowing that
Knowing what
Knowing of
Knowing how
69
Which are Rene Descartes' Arguments for God
Teleological
Ontological
Trademark
Cosmological
70
According to Coherentism our beliefs are rational when...
They are consistent
They pass Descartes' infallibism test
An authority figure has taught us
They are coherent with each other
They fit with our experience
They are based on solid foundations
71
The "Iron Age Farmer" argument questions the necessity of which term?
True
Belief
Justified
72
How does Locke think we get complex ideas
Building from simple ideas
God
We don't really understand them
Principles of Induction
73
Which of the follow describes ability knowledge
Knowing how
Knowing what
Knowing of
Knowing that
74
What do Rationalists Believe
We have innate ideas
There isn't any significant a prori knowledge
There is significant a priori knowledge
There are no innate ideas
75
Which philosopher is infallibilism associated with?
Plato
Wittgenstein
Descartes
Locke
76
According to Russell, the external world existing is the most ________ and __________ hypothesis
Insane
Logical
Ergonomic
Reasonable
Sensible
Economic
77
What is the argument from species variation?
I'm tired of thinking up a fourth answer
Other animals observe the world with different perceptual faculties
Different people see an object differently
We should mix-breed species to get more variation
78
The "nervous school boy" argument questions the necessity of which term
Justified
Belief
True
79
What is a
necessary
condition
A condition that ensures the truth of another
A condition that could be fulfilled
A condition that doesn't ensure the truth of another
A condition that must be fulfilled
80
Who said “
esse est percipi
” (to be is to be percieved)
John Locke
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Rene Descartes
George Berkeley
81
Which type of doubt is sensitive to evidence?
Philosophical doubting
Normal Incredulity
82
Which are Rene Descartes' Arguments for God
Ontological
Cosmological
Trademark
Teleological
83
"Is knowledge justified true belief?" (1963) was published by who?
Linda Zagzebski
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Willard Van Orman Quine
Edmund Gettier
84
Which of the following are indirect realists?
Bishop George Berkeley
J.L Austin
Bertrand Russell
Descartes
John Searle
John Locke
85
How does Russell justify believing in the external world beyond the veil of perception?
We are psychologically predisposed to accept it
The involuntary and coherence arguments
God wouldn't allow me to be deceived
It's the most sensible and economic hypothesis
86
What is the Time-Lag Argument
Theres a difference between seeing an object and it being there (i.e stars)
There's variation in how most of us see objects so it can't be direct
We're lagging behind classes with the content we're learning
An argument against indirect realism
87
What is a "lemma"?
An animal native to Madagascar
A step in reasoning
Another knowledge condition
A punctuation mark
88
Which philosopher lived 1711 - 1776
Bertrand Russell
George Berkeley
David Hume
Immanuel Kant
89
Which philosopher lived 1596 - 1650
George Berkeley
Rene Descartes
John Locke
Gottfried Leibniz
90
What is a reliable process?
One that doesn't break down on us
One that is infallible
One that tends to produce true beliefs
One that we have personal justification for
91
Which philosopher lived 428BCE - 348BC
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Thales