Phil101 UD Rogers Test 3 2025/2026
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Who is the father of modern philosophy? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Descartes
What is the adjective from Descartes? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Cartesian
For Medieval the point of doing philosophy is to... - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔...lead
the good and happy life, here and in the hereafter.
Medieval Philosophy takes it as a given that... - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔...we know
some things and then asks how it is that we are able to know them.
For moderns the point of doing philosophy is to... - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔...limit
our beliefs to only those that are properly justified...not to hold any false
beliefs
Modern Philosophy starts with making a claim about how we know and
then asks... - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔...What can we know.
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,Is Descartes' project skeptical or anti-skeptical? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Anti-
skeptical. Wants to put knowledge on a firm foundation.
Descartes' project distinguishes between... - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔....knowledge
and mere belief.
According to Descartes' project, in order to have knowledge we need to
justify ____. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔our beliefs
___Philosopher____ is a foundaionalist. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Descartes
Basics of Foundationalism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The thought is that there are
certain basic beliefs that are justified (one way or another), such that they
do not require any FURTHER justification and all of your justified beliefs
are either basic, or else they can be justified by tracing their justification
back to the basic beliefs.
Analogy o=for foundationalism. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔think of an epistemic
edifice (building) where the upper parts are grounded upon the foundation.
Two types of foundationalists: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔empiricists and rationalists
empiricism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔All of our knowledge begins with experience
Is Descartes a rationalist or empiricist? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔rationalist
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,rationalisim - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Knowledge arises from within one's own
mind, that is, from reason.
rationalism is NOT... - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔from the senses or from experience.
These are changing and different for different people.
knowledge characteristics: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔justified belief, certainty,
indubitability
Augustine def of knowledge vs Descartes' - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔true belief you
get from direct access to the thing known ... Descartes: true belief cannot
be doubted (raised bar way higher than Augustine)
Two ways to know (following the example of mathematics) - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔intuition
deduction
intuition - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔just "see" intellectively that something is
indubitably the case.
deduction - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔move from indubitable premises through
indubitable principles to indubitable conclusions.
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, Descartes' view of knowledge is a ___ epistomology - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔foundationalist
____ supplies the foundation of basic beliefs and then ___ constructs the
edifice. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔intuition
deduction
examples of thinks that can be doubted - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔history, memory,
other minds, presence in room, math, logic
descartes' goal is not to make everyone a skeptic. he wants to ... - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔give you justified knowledge based on a foundation of
certitude (intuition) and moving step by step through certain principles to
certain conclusions (deduction).
how do we get the world back? / Is there anything you can know, from the
very first, by intuition, with absolute certitude? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Cogito ergo
sum!
I think therefore I am!
Solipsism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔I'm the only thing there is? Sol ipse.
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Who is the father of modern philosophy? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Descartes
What is the adjective from Descartes? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Cartesian
For Medieval the point of doing philosophy is to... - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔...lead
the good and happy life, here and in the hereafter.
Medieval Philosophy takes it as a given that... - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔...we know
some things and then asks how it is that we are able to know them.
For moderns the point of doing philosophy is to... - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔...limit
our beliefs to only those that are properly justified...not to hold any false
beliefs
Modern Philosophy starts with making a claim about how we know and
then asks... - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔...What can we know.
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,Is Descartes' project skeptical or anti-skeptical? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Anti-
skeptical. Wants to put knowledge on a firm foundation.
Descartes' project distinguishes between... - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔....knowledge
and mere belief.
According to Descartes' project, in order to have knowledge we need to
justify ____. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔our beliefs
___Philosopher____ is a foundaionalist. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Descartes
Basics of Foundationalism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The thought is that there are
certain basic beliefs that are justified (one way or another), such that they
do not require any FURTHER justification and all of your justified beliefs
are either basic, or else they can be justified by tracing their justification
back to the basic beliefs.
Analogy o=for foundationalism. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔think of an epistemic
edifice (building) where the upper parts are grounded upon the foundation.
Two types of foundationalists: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔empiricists and rationalists
empiricism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔All of our knowledge begins with experience
Is Descartes a rationalist or empiricist? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔rationalist
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,rationalisim - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Knowledge arises from within one's own
mind, that is, from reason.
rationalism is NOT... - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔from the senses or from experience.
These are changing and different for different people.
knowledge characteristics: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔justified belief, certainty,
indubitability
Augustine def of knowledge vs Descartes' - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔true belief you
get from direct access to the thing known ... Descartes: true belief cannot
be doubted (raised bar way higher than Augustine)
Two ways to know (following the example of mathematics) - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔intuition
deduction
intuition - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔just "see" intellectively that something is
indubitably the case.
deduction - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔move from indubitable premises through
indubitable principles to indubitable conclusions.
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, Descartes' view of knowledge is a ___ epistomology - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔foundationalist
____ supplies the foundation of basic beliefs and then ___ constructs the
edifice. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔intuition
deduction
examples of thinks that can be doubted - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔history, memory,
other minds, presence in room, math, logic
descartes' goal is not to make everyone a skeptic. he wants to ... - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔give you justified knowledge based on a foundation of
certitude (intuition) and moving step by step through certain principles to
certain conclusions (deduction).
how do we get the world back? / Is there anything you can know, from the
very first, by intuition, with absolute certitude? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Cogito ergo
sum!
I think therefore I am!
Solipsism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔I'm the only thing there is? Sol ipse.
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