PHIL 1010 Exam Questions Answered Correctly Latest Update

PHIL 1010 Exam Questions Answered Correctly Latest Update theory that human subjective states determine the nature of the real and true - Answers subjectivism a sophist who beleived truth is in perception, man is the measure of all things, since man is the only entity capable of answering his perceptions must be true - Answers Protagoras of Abdera a false argument, usually made to deceive someone - Answers sophism "Of all things, the measure is humanity. Of the reality of those that are, and the unreality of those that are not." - Answers Protagoras' Maxim There is no way the world is apart from how is appears to human beings - Answers General Subjectivist Theory Of Truth There are no absolute, objective truths - Answers NAT a truth that is binding upon all human beings at all times - Answers absolute, objective truths possible objections to the Subjectivist theory of truth - Answers 1. well-established empirical claims (mathematics, existence, moral claims.) 2. is NAT absolute truth? (refutes itself) the theory that reality consists of material things and immaterial things - Answers dualism Plato's points in agreement with Socrates - Answers -absolute, objective truths and values -reason enables humans to achieve knowledge not in us, not in the world of material things, absolute truth is unchanging, material things can change - Answers Plato's foundation for absolute, objective truth Plato's forms - Answers FORMS ARE MORE REAL THAN MATERIAL OBJECTS. circularity, triangularity, beauty, humanity, virtue, justice Greek philosopher who believed that the world is a random combination of atoms and that pleasure is the highest good (341-270 BC) - Answers epicurus reality consists of indivisible atoms and the void in which they move - Answers atomism proof that atoms exist - Answers nothing comes from nothing, something cannot revert into nothing human beings are just a complex collection of atoms -souls are made up of atoms -destruction of the human body is destruction of the person - Answers theory of human nature one can only suffer evil if one exists the dead do not exist death is not an evil for the dead - Answers "No Harm" argument "why should I fear death? If i am, death is not. If death is, I am not. So why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?" - Answers Epicurus. Letter to Menoeceus. there is no intrinsic difference between one's prenatal nonexistence and one's post-mortem nonexistence - Answers homogeneity believed that people are born selfish and need a strong central authority. - Answers Thomas Hobbes "The universe is the aggregate of all bodies" - Answers Thomas Hobbes all knowledge and content of our concepts comes from experience - Answers empiricism reality is composed of immaterial substances and their states (there is no matter) - Answers idealism "to be, is to be perceived or to perceive" - Answers Berkeley immediate objects of all thought and perception are ideas in the mind - Answers