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Philosophy: The Power of Ideas, 5/e
Brooke Moore
Kenneth Bruder
The Rise of Modern Metaphysics and Epistemology
True or False
1
By doubting everything he could possibly doubt, Descartes hoped to discover something he could know with absolute certainty.
A)
True
B)
False
2
A major problem for dualism is explaining how mind and matter interact.
A)
True
B)
False
3
Hobbes would maintain that the green we experience when seeing a green lawn is in fact in the particles making up the lawn.
A)
True
B)
False
4
Conway argued that, since God is an eternal creator, the universe did not have a moment of creation.
A)
True
B)
False
5
Spinoza argued that thought and extension are only two of the infinite modes or attributes of the one, infinite substance.
A)
True
B)
False
6
Representative realism holds that all of our perceptions of an external object are accurate copies of the object.
A)
True
B)
False
7
Empiricists argue that all of our ideas come from sense experience.
A)
True
B)
False
8
Bishop George Berkeley rejected Locke's belief in a world of material objects existing independently of our perceptions of them.
A)
True
B)
False
9
For Berkeley, no sensible object can exist unperceived.
A)
True
B)
False
10
In denying the existence of matter, Berkeley is in effect denying that chairs and tables even exist.
A)
True
B)
False
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