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Please write the number of the correct answer after each number of the question on a lined piece of paper. Please place your name and the date at the top of the page before turning it in. Thank you...
1. Please match the following:
| a. Egocentric predicament b. Epistemology c. Methodic doubt |
___ 1. The study and theories of knowledge. ___ 2. We are trapped inside our own heads; we cannot know "reality." ___ 3. Descartes' approach to systematically proving what he really knew. |
2. Please match the following:
| a. Descartes b. Leibniz c. Locke |
___ 1. "Cogito ergo sum" ___ 2. Tabula rasa (blank slate) ___ 3. Monads |
3. Please match the following:
| a. Solipsism b. Innate ideas c. "Clockwork universe" |
___ 1. The universe is a vast, efficiently regulated machine operating according to predictable laws. ___ 2. The belief that only my mind exists. ___ 3. Inborn-a part of every person's mind from birth. |
4. Please match the following:
| a. Begging the question b. Dualism c. Mind-body problem |
___ 1. Circular reasoning-beginning with something you have already concluded. ___ 2. Descartes' sharp distinction between mind and body as two separate substances. ___ 3. If the mind and body are opposite in every respect, how can they possibly interact? |
5. Please match the following:
| a. Spinoza b. Descartes c. Leibniz |
___ 1. Mind and body are two attributes of God-the same thing viewed in two different ways. ___ 2. Mind and body are separate substances, entirely different. ___ 3. The only difference between mind and body is that mind is a more conscious monad. |
6. The purpose of life is (match the purpose to the tradition which espoused it):
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a. empiricism b. Berkeley c. logical positivism |
___ 1. To be is to be perceived. ___ 2. A proposition is meaningful only if it is self-evident or empirically verifiable. ___ 3. Knowledge is acquired only through sense experience. |
7. Please match:
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a. Wittgenstein b. Kant c. Leibniz |
___ 1. Our understanding of the world is limited to the monads we call our mind and body. ___ 2. Our understanding of the world is largely determined by our language. ___ 3. Our understanding of the world is shaped in our minds by a priori ideas and categories. |
8. Please match:
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a. phenomena b. noumena c. a priori d. a posteriori |
___ 1. In Kant, things as they appear to us. ___ 2. Before experience ___ 3. In Kant, things as they are in themselves. ___ 4. After experience |
9. What does the slogan "support our troops" mean? (very short answer, please)
10. Why does public relations use a slogan like "support our troops"? (very short answer, please)
11. According to Chomsky, how is public support for foreign wars manufactured? (very short answer, please)
NB: Each wrong answer costs 3 points.