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Spring 2020 - 1 Full Term Test 1 Questions Home  Question 1 Started: Mar 5 at 1:10pm  Question 2 Announcements Quiz Instructions  Question 3 Syllabus  Question 4 This test has both multiple choice and short answer questions. You will not be able to make multiple  Question 5 Modules attempts at the multiple choice questions, so please be sure of your answers before submitting.  Question 6  Question 7 Assignments Short answer questions should be at least 3-5 sentences, but feel free to write as much as you want.  Question 8 Discussions These MUST be in your own words; any instances of plagiarism (including closely worded  Question 9 paraphrasing) will result in a 0 on the test. Quizzes Time Running: Hide The test is due 3/6 (Friday) at 11:59 pm. BE MINDFUL OF THE DEADLINE. You have 3 hours to Attempt due: Mar 6 at 11:59pm Grades complete the test (but if you studied the readings I do not think you will need that much time). 5 Hours, 19 Minutes, 13 Seconds Pages

Follett Discover Question 1 2 pts Files

Ofce 365 Anselm’s proof for God’s existence is a priori. A priori means

About God

Dependent on facts about the world

Dependent on reason alone

Sound and valid

Question 2 2 pts

The “Fool” in Anselm’s argument has the following attributes:

He believes God exists in both understanding and reality

He believes in God based on self interest and not based on reason

B. He understands the claim that God exists but doesn’t believe that God exists

He believes in God but still commits evil acts

Question 3 2 pts

Gaunilo objection to Anselm using the example of:

an innite regress

an argument from design

a perfect island

a Fool

Question 4 2 pts

Which of the following is a strong objection to Paley’s Argument from Design?

God is a necessary being

Evolution by natural selection

We are made in God's image

The watchmaker analogy

Question 5 2 pts

In Pascal’s Wager, Pascal argues that we should believe in God because:

We have everything to gain and nothing to lose

There is denite evidence of God's existence

We can feel God's presence

God is all powerful and all good

Question 6 2 pts

A shipowner has an old ship that looks like its about to fall apart. The shipowner nevertheless believes on faith that the ship can safely make a journey across the sea, so he lets passengers on. The ship safely completes its journey. W.K. Clifford would argue the following about the shipowner:

D. The shipowner has committed a moral wrong in sending the ship out because he had no evidence it could safely sail.

It was okay that the shipowner sent the ship out since no one got hurt.

It is good the shipowner had faith in his ship.

It is okay to believe without evidence so long as it does not hurt anyone.

Question 7 2 pts

What CAN’T Descartes’ evil demon deceive you about?

That 2 + 2 = 4

That ice cream tastes good.

That you, a thinking thing, exist.

That you have a body.

Question 8 2 pts

The important lesson that Plato’s allegory of the cave teaches us is that

The shadows represent what is really real

B. We might be mistaken about what reality is

We can learn the truth about the world with our senses

Justice requires ignorance

Question 9 2 pts

Plato makes a distinction between the world of Becoming and the world of Being. The difference is:

The world of Being is empiricism while the world of Becoming is rationalism.

B. The world of Becoming involves material objects and images of material objects, while the world of Being involves Forms that exist outside of time and space

The world of Becoming represents what is really real, while the world of Being is what our senses tell us

The world of Becoming is planet earth and the world of Being is outer space

Question 10 2 pts

Paley’s Argument from Design is an example of a ______argument because it argues for God’s existence by using ______

a priori; evidence about the way the world is

a priori; reason alone

a posteriori; reason alone

a posteriori; evidence about the way the world is

Question 11 2 pts

One good way to object to Anselm’s ontological argument might be to say that

Existence in reality isn’t necessarily greater than existence in understanding alone

God doesn't exist

All the premises are true but the conclusion isn't true

There is no need to posit an inteligent creator

Question 12 2 pts

Descartes’ Method of Doubt involves

Gathering certain knowledge of the world by doing controlled experiments

Giving sound and valid inductive arguments for every objection you have to your knowledge claims.

Objecting to Plato's Forms

Being skeptical of all your current knowledge, in order to form a basis of certain knowledge that you can rebuild your knowledge on.

Question 13 2 pts

How would someone who subscribes to George Berkeley’s subjective idealist epistemology describe the existence of an overly ripe banana?

Ideas of its shape and size resemble its real properties that exist independent of perception.

If you were to bite into it, you would not doubt its physical existence.

It is the combined experience of yellowness and brownness and sweet fragrance

If it exists at all, its real nature remains unknown; its scent is merely a sign of something.

Question 14 2 pts

For Hume to classify a belief as an object of human knowledge within the category that he refers to as “Relations of Ideas,” the belief must ______.

be attained by reasoning a priori

be discoverable without reason

permit a logical contradiction

involve sense experience

Question 15 2 pts

By observing the spilled cereal on the counter in the morning, you believe that your roommate was running late this morning and didn't have time to clean up. According to David Hume’s reasoning, the truth of your belief is ______.

empirically justied by experience

justied by the principle of cause and effect

a matter of fact

uncertain and unwarranted

Question 16 2 pts

According to Plato’s Divided Line, universals such as truth, beauty, good, and justice are all examples of ______.

Sensible objects

Higher Forms

Images

Lower Forms

Question 17 2 pts

Which professor described below is exhibiting characteristics of an expert critical thinker?

Prof. Reba: She remains fully in control of her classroom, never engaging students in open discussion. The rules are clear: she talks and students listen.

Prof. MacKay: Throughout his teaching years, his course syllabus has remained consistent; every semester, he teaches with the same materials, assigns the same homework, and administers the same tests.

Prof. Xenon: His lectures are cluttered with eclectic details; taking surprising twists and strange turns, his thoughts never linger on one topic for too long.

Prof. Larges: His course explores controversial topics, but class discussions remain structured and cohesive as he helps students distinguish among facts, opinions, personal biases, and reliable sources of valid evidence.

Question 18 2 pts

Unsound arguments that attempt to persuade on the basis of emotion or illogical factors are called ______.

consequences

valid

fallacious

assumptions

Question 19 2 pts

In "Evil and Omnipotence", Mackie considers the "free will" solution to the problem of evil. Which of the following best characterizes Mackie's beliefs about the free will solution?

The free will solution does not work because if God were omnipotent and all good then He would have made us so that we have good character and freely choose to do good.

The free will solution does not work because we are all predestined to do evil.

The free will solution is able to overcome the problem of evil because free will is necessary for us to engage in "soul-making" and form a closer relationship to God.

The free will solution is able to overcome the problem of evil, because it shows that God does not create evil, instead humans choose to commit evil with our free will.

Question 20 2 pts

One possible solution to the problem of evil is to say that evil exists because good cannot exist without evil. Which of the following characterizes what is problematic about this solution?

It does not allow for the possibilty of human free will to choose between good and evil.

Arguing that good cannot exist without evil means that God was not powerful to create a world where good can exist without evil, and thus denies God's omnipotence.

God requires there to be evil so that we can overcome hardship and become closer to Him.

Good and evil are often in opposition to one another.

Question 21 5 pts

John Locke makes a distinction between primary and secondary qualities. Explain what this distinction is, and then explain why George Berkeley does not think this is a legitimate distinction.