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?
A. Correspondence
B. Coherence
C. Pragmatic
D. Jesus
E. Nihilist
Quick Quiz 2
Future contingent events (like, there will be a sea battle
tomorrow) are a problem for which theory of truth?
A. Correspondence
B. Coherence
C. Pragmatic
D. Jesus
E. Nihilist
Quick Quiz 3
When there are multiple possible explanations and we
don’t know which is correct, we call each candidate a
A. Hypothesis
B. Theory
C. Belief
D. Idea
E. Guess
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
A. an ostensive definition
B. an operational definition
C. a genus-difference definition
D. a real definition
E. a verbal definition
Quick Quiz 5
Which concepts / assertions below are messed up?
A. True facts
B. False facts
C. All facts are known
D. Facts are states of affairs
E. Facts cannot be doubted
Quick Quiz 6
Descartes uses a method to discover what he really
knows. He calls the method, the method of …
A. mayhem.
B. clarity.
C. distinction.
D. doubt.
E. certainty.
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 …
A. anything.
B. the external world.
C. 2 and 3 is 5.
D. God exists.
E. an evil demon exists.
Quick Quiz 8
Which argument does Berkeley offer as proof positive
no one should believe in unperceived objects?
A. The Transcendental Argument
B. The Phenomenological Argument
C. The Modal Argument
D. The Master Argument
E. The Monad Argument
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 …
A. nothing.
B. epistemic transparency
C.
an ontological “bond of being”
D. clarity and distinctness
E.
divine sanction
Quick Quiz 10
What principle does Descartes use to support this inference?
I have an idea of a infinite being  An infinite being exists
A. Indiscernibility of Identicals
B. Identity of Indiscernibles
C.
Sufficient Reason
D. Gradation
E.
Plenitude
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?
A. Descartes
B. Locke
C.
Berkeley
D. Hume
E.
Malebranche
Quick Quiz 12
Who is so confident we know we exist that he just jokes
about it?
A. Descartes
B. Locke
C. Berkeley
D. Hume
E. Malebranche
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?
A.
Descartes
B.
Locke
C.
Berkeley
D.
Hume
E.
Malebranche
Quick Quiz 14
Which of these philosophers was from Ireland?
A. Descartes
B. Locke
C. Berkeley
D. Hume
E. Malebranche
Quick Quiz 15
Who trumpeted the health benefits of Tar Water?
A. Descartes
B. Locke
C. Berkeley
D. Hume
E. Malebranche
Quick Quiz 16
Which Philosophers below think it is crazy to imagine
something coming into existence from nothing?
A. Descartes
B. Locke
C. Berkeley
D. Hume
E. Malebranche
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 …
A. Descartes
B. Locke
C.
Berkeley
D. Hume
E.
Malebranche
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).
Key
1. a
7. b
13. d
2. a
8. d
14. c
3. b
9. d
15. c
4. c
10. c
16. a,b,c,e
5. a,b,c,e
11. c
17. e
6. d
12. b
18. fyi