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Quick Quiz

Quick Quiz. Truth, Facts, Theories, Definitions, Skepticism. Quick Quiz 1. If its usefulness to us makes the sentence ‘this pancake is salty!’ true, which theory of truth is correct? Correspondence Coherence Pragmatic Jesus Nihilist. Quick Quiz 2.

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Quick Quiz

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  1. Quick Quiz Truth, Facts, Theories, Definitions, Skepticism

  2. Quick Quiz 1 If its usefulness to us makes the sentence ‘this pancake is salty!’ true, which theory of truth is correct? • Correspondence • Coherence • Pragmatic • Jesus • Nihilist

  3. Quick Quiz 2 Future contingent events (like, there will be a sea battle tomorrow) are a problem for which theory of truth? • Correspondence • Coherence • Pragmatic • Jesus • Nihilist

  4. Quick Quiz 3 When there are multiple possible explanations and we don’t know which is correct, we call each candidate a • Hypothesis • Theory • Belief • Idea • Guess

  5. Quick Quiz 4 When you define a term by saying what class a thing belongs to and how it differs from others in that class, you’ve given • an ostensive definition • an operational definition • a genus-difference definition • a real definition • a verbal definition

  6. Quick Quiz 5 Which concepts / assertions below are messed up? • True facts • False facts • All facts are known • Facts are states of affairs • Facts cannot be doubted

  7. Quick Quiz 6 Descartes uses a method to discover what he really knows. He calls the method, the method of … • mayhem. • clarity. • distinction. • doubt. • certainty.

  8. Quick Quiz 7 The Dream Argument says, I can’t know if I’m awake or dreaming, and if I can’t know that, I can’t know … • anything. • the external world. • 2 and 3 is 5. • God exists. • an evil demon exists.

  9. Quick Quiz 8 Which argument does Berkeley offer as proof positive no one should believe in unperceived objects? • The Transcendental Argument • The Phenomenological Argument • The Modal Argument • The Master Argument • The Monad Argument

  10. Quick Quiz 9 Once Descartes knows he exists, he looks closely at his tiny piece of knowledge, ‘I am, I exist’, for features that might guarantee similar certainty elsewhere. He finds … • nothing. • epistemic transparency • an ontological “bond of being” • clarity and distinctness • divine sanction

  11. Quick Quiz 10 What principle does Descartes use to support this inference? I have an idea of a infinite being  An infinite being exists • Indiscernibility of Identicals • Identity of Indiscernibles • Sufficient Reason • Gradation • Plenitude

  12. Quick Quiz 11 We have no experience of force or power except will-power. Therefore, by strict reasoning, we should believe minds cause all motion. Who reasons this way? • Descartes • Locke • Berkeley • Hume • Malebranche

  13. Quick Quiz 12 Who is so confident we know we exist that he just jokes about it? • Descartes • Locke • Berkeley • Hume • Malebranche

  14. Quick Quiz 13 A. One billiard ball has hit another  B. The other took off Since A can be true and B false, there is no necessary connection between causes and effects. Who reasons like this? • Descartes • Locke • Berkeley • Hume • Malebranche

  15. Quick Quiz 14 Which of these philosophers was from Ireland? • Descartes • Locke • Berkeley • Hume • Malebranche

  16. Quick Quiz 15 Who trumpeted the health benefits of Tar Water? • Descartes • Locke • Berkeley • Hume • Malebranche

  17. Quick Quiz 16 Which Philosophers below think it is crazy to imagine something coming into existence from nothing? • Descartes • Locke • Berkeley • Hume • Malebranche

  18. Quick Quiz 17 God is the only true cause of events. All other causes are occasional causes (causes on those occasions that God chooses to help an effect proceed from a human or creaturely “cause”). This is Occasionalism, the view of … • Descartes • Locke • Berkeley • Hume • Malebranche

  19. Quick Quiz 18 Clean up, isle 3! • hy·poth·e·sis • [hahy-poth-uh-sis, hi-] Show IPA • noun, plural hy·poth·e·ses  [-seez] Show IPA. 1. a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide investigation (working hypothesis)  or accepted as highly probable in the light of established facts. • 2. a proposition assumed as a premise in an argument. • 3. the antecedent of a conditional proposition. • 4. a mere assumption or guess. Okay … this is from Dictionary.com … I have to say I like Bo’s definition better: as restricted to theory-based guesses about the future outcome of a test. But this dictionary definition fits my ‘to speak in the vernacular of the peasantry’ defense of it being correct along with answer b (theory) for question 3 … as modern dictionaries simply report ordinary usage (which is often inaccurate).

  20. Key 1. a 2. a 3. b 4. c 5. a,b,c,e 6. d 7. b 8. d 9. d 10. c 11. c 12. b 13. d 14. c 15. c 16. a,b,c,e 17. e 18. fyi

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