INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
MONTHLY TEST
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Test I. Multiple Choice
1. What is a defect in an argument other than its having false premises?
A. equivocation
C. appeal to pity
B. Fallacies
D. Appeal to ignorance
2. What is a specific kind of appeal to emotion in which someone tries to win
support for an argument or idea by exploiting his or her opponent’s feelings of
guilt?
A. equivocation
C. appeal to pity
B. Fallacies
D. Appeal to ignorance
3. What states that whatever has not been proved false must be true, and vice
versa?
A. Composition
C. Appeal to pity
B. Equivocation
D. Appeal to ignorance
4. What fallacy infers that something is true of the whole from the fact that is true
of
some part of the whole?
A. Composition
C. Appeal to pity
B. Equivocation
D. Appeal to ignorance
5. What fallacy is a logical chain of reasoning of a term or a word several times, but
giving the particular word a different meaning each time?
A. Composition
C. Appeal to pity
B. Equivocation
D. Appeal to ignorance
6. What kind of fallacy that reason’s logically that something true of a thing must
also
be true of all or some of its parts?
A. Division
C. Against the person
B. Against to force
D. Appeal to the people
7. In what way is critical thinking a tool for reasoning?
A. Critical thinking deductive arguments.
B. Critical thinking is inductive arguments.
C. Critical thinking reverse of the fallacy is division.
D. Critical thinking is distinguishing facts and opinions or personal feelings
8. It is a specific kind of appeal to emotion in which someone tries to win support
for
an argument or idea by exploiting his/her opponents feeling of pity and guilt. What
kind
of appeal is this?
A. Appeal to force
C. Appeal to ignorance
B. Appeal to pity
D. Appeal to the People
9. What ideas justify the Fact or Truth?
A. Ideas based on direct evidence, actual experience, or observation.
B. Ideas referring “the way how one applies his mind to collect information.
C. Phenomenologist “brackets” all questions of truth or reality and simply
describes the contents of consciousness suspension
D. Basic reasoning that draws conclusion from usually one broad judgment or
definition and one more specific assertion
10. What do you think is the meaning of Intelligence in philosophy?
A. It is based on direct evidence, actual experience, or observation.
B. It’s referring “the way how one applies his mind to collect information.
C. It is phenomenologist “brackets” all questions of truth or reality and simply
describes the contents of consciousness Suspension
D. It is basic reasoning that draws conclusion from usually one broad judgment
or definition and one more specific assertion
Test II. Open-Ended Questions
1. What is Philosophy?
2. What is your philosophy in life?
3. How important is doing philosophy in your life?