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The Philosophical Journey, 2/e
William Lawhead, The University of Mississippi
The Search for Knowledge
Rationalism
True or False
1
Empiricists believe that the fundamental truths about the world can be known by principles that are either innate or self-evident.
A)
True
B)
False
2
Rationalists maintain that logical and mathematical truths are a priori but that metaphysical and ethical principles can never be a priori.
A)
True
B)
False
3
Socrates argues that sense experience is the sole source of our knowledge about the world.
A)
True
B)
False
4
Plato thinks that true Justice is an eternal standard about which we can have knowledge through reason.
A)
True
B)
False
5
Descartes argues for the existence of God based on the claim that only God could have created such an orderly, coordinated, well-designed world.
A)
True
B)
False
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