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Philosophy: The Power of Ideas
Philosophy: The Power of Ideas, 5/e
Brooke Moore
Kenneth Bruder

The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Multiple Choice



1

What do we directly observe, according to David Hume?
A)Physical objects
B)Sense impressions
C)Ourselves
D)Our brains
2

What is the self, according to Hume?
A)A sequence of perceptions.
B)An immaterial, unchanging substance.
C)A physical body.
D)A social entity.
3

Why can't we have cause and effect knowledge, according to Hume?
A)We can never observe a constant conjunction between events.
B)We can never observe the cause and the effect at the same time.
C)We can never observe a necessary connection between events.
D)We can never observe the atoms that make up the cause and the effect.
4

Why can't past experience justify claims about the future, according to Hume?
A)Our knowledge of past experience depends on memory, which cannot be known to be accurate.
B)Trick question! Hume does think that past experience can justify claims about the future.
C)Because we can never know if we are the same person as the person we seem to remember being, past experience cannot be a guide to claims about our future.
D)We can never know whether or not the future will be like the past.
5

What is perception, for Immanuel Kant?
A)Sense impressions.
B)The organizing principles of the mind.
C)The application of the organizing principles of the mind to sense impressions.
D)The direct awareness of noumenal objects.
6

Why can we know that all of our future experiences will be in space and time, according to Kant?
A)Because all of our past experiences have been.
B)Another trick question! Kant says we can't know this.
C)Because these are preconditions of all possible experience based on the mind's own organizing principles.
D)Because a good God would not deceive us about such matters.
7

What does Kant mean by the noumenal world?
A)The world as it really is, independently of our experiences of it.
B)The world as it is presented to us in experience.
C)The world of mind.
D)The world of matter.
8

Why doesn't Kant think that we can have knowledge of the things-in-themselves (das ding-an-sich)?
A)Because they have not yet been experienced.
B)Because they are not physical in nature.
C)Because they are not mental in nature.
D)Because the organizing principles of the mind do not apply to them.
9

According to Absolute Idealism, what is the relationship between being real and being knowable?
A)No reality is knowable.
B)All reality is knowable.
C)Some reality is knowable and some isn't.
D)Only God is ultimately unknowable.
10

What is the highest reality (the Absolute), for Hegel?
A)The entire material world.
B)A God who exists beyond the world.
C)Infinite thought thinking itself.
D)A vast group of independent particulars.