PHIL 101 - Final Exam UPDATED Study
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Q1: If an argument is sound, then it must be valid. - CORRECT ANSWER True
Q1: If an argument is valid, then it is sound. - CORRECT ANSWER False
Q1: The premises of a valid argument are always true. - CORRECT ANSWER False
Q1: The premises of an invalid argument are always false. - CORRECT
ANSWER False
Q1: An argument that attempts to prove its conclusion is called... - CORRECT
ANSWER A deductive argument
Q1: An argument that attempts to show that its conclusion is very likely is called... -
CORRECT ANSWER An inductive argument
Q1: P1) If it is October, then it is Autumn.
P2) It is October.
C) It is Autumn. - CORRECT ANSWER Modus ponens and it is valid.
Q1: P1) If it is October, then it is Autumn.
P2) It is Autumn.
C) It is October. - CORRECT ANSWER Affirming the consequent and it is invalid
Q1: P1) If it is October, then it is Autumn.
P2) It is not Autumn.
C) It is not October. - CORRECT ANSWER Modus tollens and it is valid.
, Q1: P1) If it is October, then it is Autumn.
P2) It is not October.
C) It is not Autumn. - CORRECT ANSWER Denying the antecedent and it is invalid.
Q2: Paley says that just as a principle of order is what accounts for the operation of a watch, a
principle of order is what accounts for the operation of the universe. - CORRECT
ANSWER False
Q2: Philo argues with Cleanthes that even if we can tell that the universe was designed, we
can't know that it was designed by one maker. - CORRECT ANSWER True
Q2: Anselm says that whatever exists in the mind must also exist in reality. - CORRECT
ANSWER False
Q2: Aquinas says that there must have been a time when nothing existed. - CORRECT
ANSWER False
Q2: Which of Aquinas's Five Ways involves the concept of change? - CORRECT
ANSWER The First Way
Q2: If I know something, and I don't need sense experience or observation to know it, that is
referred to as what type of knowledge? - CORRECT ANSWER A priori knowledge
Q2: What argument for the existence of God was inspired by the methods of science? -
CORRECT ANSWER The Teleological Argumen
Q2: Aquinas says that nothing can be the cause of itself because...? - CORRECT
ANSWER Nothing can precede itself.
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Q1: If an argument is sound, then it must be valid. - CORRECT ANSWER True
Q1: If an argument is valid, then it is sound. - CORRECT ANSWER False
Q1: The premises of a valid argument are always true. - CORRECT ANSWER False
Q1: The premises of an invalid argument are always false. - CORRECT
ANSWER False
Q1: An argument that attempts to prove its conclusion is called... - CORRECT
ANSWER A deductive argument
Q1: An argument that attempts to show that its conclusion is very likely is called... -
CORRECT ANSWER An inductive argument
Q1: P1) If it is October, then it is Autumn.
P2) It is October.
C) It is Autumn. - CORRECT ANSWER Modus ponens and it is valid.
Q1: P1) If it is October, then it is Autumn.
P2) It is Autumn.
C) It is October. - CORRECT ANSWER Affirming the consequent and it is invalid
Q1: P1) If it is October, then it is Autumn.
P2) It is not Autumn.
C) It is not October. - CORRECT ANSWER Modus tollens and it is valid.
, Q1: P1) If it is October, then it is Autumn.
P2) It is not October.
C) It is not Autumn. - CORRECT ANSWER Denying the antecedent and it is invalid.
Q2: Paley says that just as a principle of order is what accounts for the operation of a watch, a
principle of order is what accounts for the operation of the universe. - CORRECT
ANSWER False
Q2: Philo argues with Cleanthes that even if we can tell that the universe was designed, we
can't know that it was designed by one maker. - CORRECT ANSWER True
Q2: Anselm says that whatever exists in the mind must also exist in reality. - CORRECT
ANSWER False
Q2: Aquinas says that there must have been a time when nothing existed. - CORRECT
ANSWER False
Q2: Which of Aquinas's Five Ways involves the concept of change? - CORRECT
ANSWER The First Way
Q2: If I know something, and I don't need sense experience or observation to know it, that is
referred to as what type of knowledge? - CORRECT ANSWER A priori knowledge
Q2: What argument for the existence of God was inspired by the methods of science? -
CORRECT ANSWER The Teleological Argumen
Q2: Aquinas says that nothing can be the cause of itself because...? - CORRECT
ANSWER Nothing can precede itself.
