PHIL 201 (PHIL 201)
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PHIL 201 Liberty University Phil 201 Chapter 3 Quizzes already passed 2025
PHIL 201 Liberty University Phil 201 Chapter 3 Quizzes already passed 2025 
 
Surface Freedom - correct answer The ability to satisfy one's desires without interference (e.g. the ability to practice the religion of one's choice, etc.) 
 
Agent - correct answer A person who performs an action 
 
Determinism - correct answer The view that (given the antecedent conditions and laws of nature) there is only one causally possible future 
 
Ultimate Responsibility - correct answer The or...
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PHIL 201 Liberty University PHIL 201-001 Jones Final Questions with complete solution 2025 updated
PHIL 201 Liberty University PHIL 201-001 Jones Final Questions with complete solution 2025 updated 
 
Which of the following is the etymological meaning of "philosophy" - correct answer Friend of Wisdom 
 
As per class discussion, which of the following is the main tool of philosophy? - correct answer reason 
 
Which of the following is closet to the definition of Philosophy given in class? - correct answer To philosophize is to think carefully about important issues in an attempt ...
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PHIL 201 Liberty University -PHIL 201- Test 1 Review Questions with complete solution 2025
PHIL 201 Liberty University -PHIL 201- Test 1 Review Questions with complete solution 2025 
Philosophy - correct answer The critical examination of our foundational beliefs concerning the nature of reality, knowledge of truth, and our personal and social values. 
 
"Philo" - correct answer Love 
 
"Sophos" - correct answer Wisdom 
 
Normative claim - correct answer Makes a claim about what a person ought to do. 
 
Critical Examination - correct answer 1. Clarification: Wha...
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PHIL 201 Liberty University PHIL 201- Exam 1 (Multiple Choice) Question and answers 100% correct 2025
PHIL 201 Liberty University PHIL 201- Exam 1 (Multiple Choice) Question and answers 100% correct 2025 
Branches of Philosophy - correct answer ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, logic 
 
Ethics - correct answer what actions are right or wrong 
 
Epistemology - correct answer what can be known or reasonably believed 
 
Metaphysics - correct answer what kinds of things exist 
 
Logic - correct answer what forms of reasoning are good or bad 
 
Kinds of Arguments - correct answer abduct...
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PHIL 201 Liberty University -Phil 201: Exam 2 Question and answers already passed 2025
PHIL 201 Liberty University -Phil 201: Exam 2 Question and answers already passed 2025 
What is "first philosophy" according to Descartes? (remember the tree of human knowledge?) - correct answer The first philosophy is that which demonstrates the existence of God and the distinction between the human soul and the body. 
 
What goal or objective does Descartes want to achieve by means of doubt (in the first Meditation)? 
[What fundamental things upon which all others rest does he study ...
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PHIL 201 Liberty University -Liberty University: Philosophy 201-Exam 4 Question and answers 100% correct 2025
PHIL 201 Liberty University -Liberty University: Philosophy 201-Exam 4 Question and answers 100% correct 2025 
what is a good that judges based on the quality of a moral agent and their actions? - correct answer Moral good 
 
what is a good that is based on happiness or what is conducive to it - correct answer natural good 
 
what is a kind of good that is good in it of itself? - correct answer intrinsic good 
 
what kind of good is good only if it produces a good result i.e. means to an e...
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PHIL 201 Liberty University -Liberty University PHIL 201 Prof. Jones Final Exam Question and answers already passed 2025
PHIL 201 Liberty University -Liberty University PHIL 201 Prof. Jones Final Exam Question and answers already passed 2025 
Which of the following is the argument for atheism that is based on Ockham's razor? 
a. The argument from theoretical simplicity 
b. The argument that belief in God is not scientific 
c. The ateleology argument 
d. The epistemological argument 
e. The argument from the problem of evil - correct answer a 
 
Which of the following is the argument for atheism that is based...
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Liberty University PHIL 201 Exam 1 – Jones verified to pass 2025
Liberty University PHIL 201 Exam 1 – Jones verified to pass 2025 
 
~ - correct answer Negation 
 
. - correct answer Conjunction 
 
V - correct answer Disjunction 
 
= - correct answer Equivalence 
 
≠ - correct answer Inequality 
 
> - correct answer Implication 
 
≡ - correct answer Biconditional (if and only if) 
 
:. - correct answer Conclusion 
 
Three Laws of Thought - correct answer The Law of Identity (A=A) 
The Law of Excluded Middle (A v~ A) 
The Law of Non-...
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PHIL 201 Liberty University PHIL 201 Exam 4 Question and answers verified to pass 2025
PHIL 201 Liberty University PHIL 201 Exam 4 Question and answers verified to pass 2025 
Physicalism - correct answer persons are only physical bodies; advanced human behaviors are the result of evolutionary selection 
 
Idealism - correct answer persons are only spirit/soul/mind 
 
Dualism - correct answer body and soul are both real 
 
Sam Harris' view - correct answer brain is fully determined by nature/nurture: no free will; physicalism 
 
George Berkeley's view - correct answ...
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PHIL 201 Liberty University -PHIL 201 EXAM 3 Question and answers verified to pass 2025
PHIL 201 Liberty University -PHIL 201 EXAM 3 Question and answers verified to pass 2025 
 
What are "arguments" for God's reality? - correct answer - 1. All arguments are logical patterns of thinking. Thinking is how we process our experience (seeing, feeling, tasting, listening). They are the reasons we give ourselves and others for anything. 
- 2. God is unique: infinite, immaterial, person 
- 3. So arguments for God's existence will be from effect to cause since we can have no d...
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PHIL 201 Liberty University -PHIL 201 Exam 2 Liberty University Question and answers verified to pass 2025
PHIL 201 Liberty University -PHIL 201 Exam 2 Liberty University Question and answers verified to pass 2025 
Common Sense Skepticism - correct answer An antidote for gullibility 
 
Philosophical Skepticism - correct answer The tendency to doubt philosophical claims 
 
Absolute Skepticism - correct answer Doubt the very possibility of knowledge 
 
The claim made by Pyrrhonian skepticism - correct answer We cannot know anything, the best we can do is say "it appears so" 
 
Self-Refuti...
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Phil 201 Chapter 3 Quizzes Correctly Answered 2024.
Phil 201 Chapter 3 Quizzes Correctly Answered 2024. 
 
 
Surface Freedom - CORRECT ANSWER The ability to satisfy one's desires without interference (e.g. the ability to practice the religion of one's choice, etc.) 
 
Agent - CORRECT ANSWER A person who performs an action 
 
Determinism - CORRECT ANSWER The view that (given the antecedent conditions and laws of nature) there is only one causally possible future 
 
Ultimate Responsibility - CORRECT ANSWER The origins of an action are "in me," ...
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Phil 201 Chapter 5 Review Practice Questions 2024.
Phil 201 Chapter 5 Review Practice Questions 2024. 
 
 
fallacy - CORRECT ANSWER an argument form that is both common and defective; a recurring mistake in reasoning 
 
Informal Fallacy - CORRECT ANSWER is detected by looking at the content of the argument. 
 
Formal Fallacy - CORRECT ANSWER results from an invalid argument form. Only deductive arguments can have formal fallacies. 
 
Genetic Fallacy - CORRECT ANSWER The fallacy of arguing that a claim is true or false solely because of its origi...
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Phil 201 Graham Final Exam Questions 2024.
Phil 201 Graham Final Exam Questions 2024. 
 
 
What are the kinds of explanation? - CORRECT ANSWER Mythology and Science, which are either category, mechanism, or cause. 
------------Mythology/Science 
Category: Person/--------thing 
Mechanism: Birth, human activity/--------Natural Process 
Cause: Agent/----Natural Event 
 
Who are the three (presocratic) philosophers of Miletus? - CORRECT ANSWER Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes 
 
Thales - CORRECT ANSWER All is water 
 
Anaximander - CORRECT AN...
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Phil 201 Final Exam 2024.
Phil 201 Final Exam 2024. 
 
 
Metaphysics - CORRECT ANSWER The philosophical study of reality 
 
Cosmological metaphysics - CORRECT ANSWER Concerns questions about the origin and purpose of reality 
 
Anthropological metaphysics - CORRECT ANSWER Pertains to the nature of human beings 
 
Ontological - CORRECT ANSWER Deals with the nature of being or existence itself 
 
Epistemology - CORRECT ANSWER The branch of philosophy that deals with knowledge and truth claims 
 
Axiology - CORRECT ANSWER T...
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Phil 201 Exam 2024.
PHIL 201 EXAM 2024. 
 
An _______ is a structured group of statements intended to perform a rational persuasive task. - CORRECT ANSWER Arguement 
 
A ______ is a statement, offered as evidence for a conclusion, which is assumed or taken for granted in a context. - CORRECT ANSWER Premise 
 
A ______ is the statement or claim presented as resulting from the premise(s). - CORRECT ANSWER Conclusion 
 
An argument is ______ if it claims that the conclusion must be true if the premises are true. - CO...
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Phil 201 Test 1 Quotes Study Guide 2024.
Phil 201 Test 1 Quotes Study Guide 2024. 
 
 
This law the son of Cronus has ordained to men, 
but to fish and beasts and winged birds 
to eat each other, since there is no justice among them. 
But to men he gave justice, which proves to be by far 
the best. For if someone wishes to speak justly 
with knowledge, far-seeing Zeus gives to him prosperity - CORRECT ANSWER Hesoid 
 
This law the son of Cronus has ordained to men, but to fish and beasts and winged birds to eat each other, since there ...
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Philosophy 201 BYU Study Guide Exam 2024.
Philosophy 201 BYU Study Guide Exam 2024. 
 
 
Nature of God - CORRECT ANSWER The qualities that combine to make up what God is 
That he is good, 
That he is omnipotent and omniscient 
That he created everything that is 
 
Original sin - CORRECT ANSWER The fallen state of human nature into which all generations of people are born. This due to Adam and Eve partaking of the fruit 
 
Odyssey (Homer) - CORRECT ANSWER Epic poem that chronicles Odysseus' 10 year struggle to return to his throne in It...
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Phil 201 Final Exam Questions 2024.
Phil 201 Final Exam Questions 2024. 
 
 
Which of the following would be considered a mental state, rather than a non-mental physical state? - CORRECT ANSWER All of the above. 
 
True or false: having a broken foot would be an example of a mental state. - CORRECT ANSWER False 
 
The attribute or property dualist would reject which of the following claims? - CORRECT ANSWER Mental states are properties of a non-physical substance. 
 
True or false: according to the property dualist, all mental pro...
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Phil 201 Exam 1 Latest Verified Complete Answers 2024.
Phil 201 Exam 1 Latest Verified Complete Answers 2024. 
 
 
Fallacy of Undistributed Middle Term - CORRECT ANSWER Drawing a conclusion in a syllogism in which the middle term in the premises is not distributed at least once. 
All Z is B 
All Y is B 
Therefore, all Y is Z 
"All cats are mammals. 
"All dogs are mammals. 
Therefore: 
"All cats are dogs" 
 
Where do the laws of logic come from? - CORRECT ANSWER originates in the mind of God 
 
law of non contradiction - CORRECT ANSWER a thing ca...