PHIL 101 STRAIGHTERLINE EXAM 2 STUDY GUIDE | COMPLETE EXAM REVIEW
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026/2027
According to David Hume, what do we directly observe? - ANS ✔✔sense impressions
According to Hume, why can't we have knowledge on the relation of cause and effect? - ANS ✔✔We can
never observe a necessary connection between events.
Which of the following statements is true about Immanuel Kant? - ANS ✔✔He argued that a stream of
sensations could not qualify as experience unless the stream was unified and conceptualized by the
mind as the experience of external objects.
According to the philosophy of Absolute Idealism, what is the relationship between "being real" and
"being knowable"? - ANS ✔✔All reality is knowable.
According to David Hume, the self is a(n) _____. - ANS ✔✔sequence of perceptions
According to Hegel, the highest reality (the absolute) is _____. - ANS ✔✔an infinite thought thinking of
itself
Identify a true statement about Søren Kierkegaard. - ANS ✔✔He scorned Hegel's system, in which the
individual dissolves into a kind of abstract unreality.
Who made the study of multiplicity the centerpiece of his thought? - ANS ✔✔Gilles Deleuze
Critical theory is associated with _____. - ANS ✔✔Jürgen Habermas
Which term is NOT generally associated with Jacques Derrida? - ANS ✔✔semiotics
Who searched for a group of rules that accounts for the social complexities of even so-called primitive
cultures? - ANS ✔✔Claude Levi-Strauss
According to Albert Camus, how can we give life meaning and value? - ANS ✔✔Rebel against the absurd.
What was the fundamental philosophical question for Albert Camus? - ANS ✔✔Is there any reason not
to commit suicide?
According to logical atomists, the world is a collection of: - ANS ✔✔atomic facts.
Who is most likely to have written "There is no method for knowing when one has reached the truth, or
when one is closer than ever before"? - ANS ✔✔Richard Rorty
Which of the following best expresses phenomenalism as a metaphysical theory? - ANS ✔✔true
statements that could not possibly be false.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026/2027
According to David Hume, what do we directly observe? - ANS ✔✔sense impressions
According to Hume, why can't we have knowledge on the relation of cause and effect? - ANS ✔✔We can
never observe a necessary connection between events.
Which of the following statements is true about Immanuel Kant? - ANS ✔✔He argued that a stream of
sensations could not qualify as experience unless the stream was unified and conceptualized by the
mind as the experience of external objects.
According to the philosophy of Absolute Idealism, what is the relationship between "being real" and
"being knowable"? - ANS ✔✔All reality is knowable.
According to David Hume, the self is a(n) _____. - ANS ✔✔sequence of perceptions
According to Hegel, the highest reality (the absolute) is _____. - ANS ✔✔an infinite thought thinking of
itself
Identify a true statement about Søren Kierkegaard. - ANS ✔✔He scorned Hegel's system, in which the
individual dissolves into a kind of abstract unreality.
Who made the study of multiplicity the centerpiece of his thought? - ANS ✔✔Gilles Deleuze
Critical theory is associated with _____. - ANS ✔✔Jürgen Habermas
Which term is NOT generally associated with Jacques Derrida? - ANS ✔✔semiotics
Who searched for a group of rules that accounts for the social complexities of even so-called primitive
cultures? - ANS ✔✔Claude Levi-Strauss
According to Albert Camus, how can we give life meaning and value? - ANS ✔✔Rebel against the absurd.
What was the fundamental philosophical question for Albert Camus? - ANS ✔✔Is there any reason not
to commit suicide?
According to logical atomists, the world is a collection of: - ANS ✔✔atomic facts.
Who is most likely to have written "There is no method for knowing when one has reached the truth, or
when one is closer than ever before"? - ANS ✔✔Richard Rorty
Which of the following best expresses phenomenalism as a metaphysical theory? - ANS ✔✔true
statements that could not possibly be false.
