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Philosophy: The Power of Ideas
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