Test Bank For Doing Philosophy An Introduction Through Thought Experiments, 7th Edition Theodore Schick

TEST BANK FOR
Doing Philosophy an Introduction Through Thought Experiments, 7th Edition Theodore Schick
Chapters 1-7 Answers are at the End of Each Chapter

TRUE/FALSE - Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) “Philosophy” means love of wisdom.
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2) Philosophy tries to understand the nature of reality, knowledge, and value.
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3) Philosophical problems arise when it is discovered that some of our most fundamental beliefs
contradict one another.
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4) Metaphysics is the study of the physics of the metaverse.
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5) Epistemology is the study of epistles.
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6) Axiology is the study of the nature of value.
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7) A necessary condition is a requirement.
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8) A sufficient condition meets all the requirements.
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,9) Being a biological human being is a necessary condition for being a person.
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10) Getting your head chopped off is a necessary condition for dying.
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11) Something is logically impossible if it violates a law of logic.
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12) Something is causally impossible if it is uncaused.
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13) Whatever is logically impossible is causally impossible.
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14) It is logically possible for a triangle to not have three interior angles.
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15) It is logically possible for a brick to float in the air.
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16) It is logically possible for pigs to fly.
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17) It is logically possible to live to be 900 years old.
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18) Philosophical theories cannot be tested.
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,19) A thought experiment can be criticized if a variable other than the one under investigation
could have produced the result.
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20) Thought experiments are used in science as well as in philosophy.
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21) It is not possible for a nonhuman to be a person.
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22) Galileo failed to demonstrate that Aristotle's theory of motion is self-contradictory.
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23) The Tooley's Cat thought experiment supports a pro-life position.
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24) Thomson's Diseased Musician thought experiment shows that killing innocent persons is
always wrong.
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25) A deductive argument in which the conclusion logically follows from the premises is said to
be cogent.
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26) An inductive argument whose premises, if true, would make the conclusion probable is said
to be strong.
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27) If a deductive argument is valid, its conclusion is true.
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, 28) All sound arguments are valid.
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29) If all of the premises of an argument as well as its conclusion are true, then the argument is
sound.
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30) If an argument is sound, then all of its premises as well as its conclusion are true.
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31) It’s impossible for a valid argument to have a false conclusion,
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32) If an argument is invalid, then its conclusion is false.
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33) If the premises of an argument are controversial, then the argument cannot be sound.
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34) In order to determine whether an argument is alid, you must know whether the premises are
true.
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35) In an inductive argument is cogent, its premises are true.
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36) An inductive argument is sound if its premises are true.
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