Philosophy 101 test 2(Quizzes & solns)
version 2025
avicenna contributed to distinctions in __________
a) zoology
b) ontology
c) optometry
d) epistemology - answer-B
according to kant, to say that something exists is to __________
a) add an additional property to it
b) not add any additional property to it
c) postulate a change in the thing's essence
d) add a concept to the concept of the thing - answer-B
according to the doctrine of __________, __________ is not one of the four "tests" that
an action must pass to be judged morally permissible
a) causation; the end does not justify the means
b) double effect; the end justifies the means
c) good effect; the bad effect can be foreseen but never intended
d) bad effect; the action itself must be morally permissible - answer-B
a teleological argument is also known as an argument from __________
a) a first cause
b) appearance
c) final causes
d) design - answer-D
the most powerful trend in the medieval period was the rise of __________
a) christianity
b) islam
c) pagan cults
d) neoplatonism - answer-A
true or false? teleological arguments reason from the concept of god to the existence of
god - answer-false
true or false? teleological arguments reason from apparent signs of design or
purposeful creation in the world to the existence of a supreme designer - answer-true
, true or false? gaunilo supports anselm's argument - answer-false
true or false? a necessary truth is a truth that one needs to support a claim - answer-
false
true or false? aquinas is perhaps best known for his arguments for the existence of god
and his ethical system, known as natural law theory - answer-true
skepticism is the view that we lack __________
a) knowledge in some fundamental way
b) a connection between knowledge and ethics
c) limited knowledge
d) a connection between knowledge and reality - answer-A
knowledge that depends entirely on sense experience is called __________ knowledge
a) a priori
b) analytic
c) a posteriori
d) synthetic - answer-C
descartes initially rejects the idea that all his sense-based beliefs are false because
__________
a) we are used to using them to navigate through life
b) they are perceptions
c) god wouldn't deceive him about his senses
d) his immediate sensations seem to be obviously reliable - answer-D
descartes asserts, "i am, i exist, is necessarily true __________."
a) each time that I am not being deceived by the evil genius
b) each time that I pronounce it, or that I mentally conceive it
c) each time that god reminds me
d) so long as god does not deceive me - answer-B
descartes argues that god __________
a) is not a deceiver
b) dispenses knowledge
c) is a deceiver
d) is subject to the evil genius's machinations - answer-A
version 2025
avicenna contributed to distinctions in __________
a) zoology
b) ontology
c) optometry
d) epistemology - answer-B
according to kant, to say that something exists is to __________
a) add an additional property to it
b) not add any additional property to it
c) postulate a change in the thing's essence
d) add a concept to the concept of the thing - answer-B
according to the doctrine of __________, __________ is not one of the four "tests" that
an action must pass to be judged morally permissible
a) causation; the end does not justify the means
b) double effect; the end justifies the means
c) good effect; the bad effect can be foreseen but never intended
d) bad effect; the action itself must be morally permissible - answer-B
a teleological argument is also known as an argument from __________
a) a first cause
b) appearance
c) final causes
d) design - answer-D
the most powerful trend in the medieval period was the rise of __________
a) christianity
b) islam
c) pagan cults
d) neoplatonism - answer-A
true or false? teleological arguments reason from the concept of god to the existence of
god - answer-false
true or false? teleological arguments reason from apparent signs of design or
purposeful creation in the world to the existence of a supreme designer - answer-true
, true or false? gaunilo supports anselm's argument - answer-false
true or false? a necessary truth is a truth that one needs to support a claim - answer-
false
true or false? aquinas is perhaps best known for his arguments for the existence of god
and his ethical system, known as natural law theory - answer-true
skepticism is the view that we lack __________
a) knowledge in some fundamental way
b) a connection between knowledge and ethics
c) limited knowledge
d) a connection between knowledge and reality - answer-A
knowledge that depends entirely on sense experience is called __________ knowledge
a) a priori
b) analytic
c) a posteriori
d) synthetic - answer-C
descartes initially rejects the idea that all his sense-based beliefs are false because
__________
a) we are used to using them to navigate through life
b) they are perceptions
c) god wouldn't deceive him about his senses
d) his immediate sensations seem to be obviously reliable - answer-D
descartes asserts, "i am, i exist, is necessarily true __________."
a) each time that I am not being deceived by the evil genius
b) each time that I pronounce it, or that I mentally conceive it
c) each time that god reminds me
d) so long as god does not deceive me - answer-B
descartes argues that god __________
a) is not a deceiver
b) dispenses knowledge
c) is a deceiver
d) is subject to the evil genius's machinations - answer-A
