Philosophy

5 Written Questions

1. The attributing of human qualities to nonhuman entities.
2. The study of the meanings of ethical words and of the sentences in which they appear.
3. The theory that all forms of government are incompatible with individaul and social liberty and should be abolished.
4. The belief in a personal God who intervenes in the lives of the creation.
5. The view that a true scientific theory is nothing more than a theory that coheres with the conceptual framework accepted by a community of scientists.

5 Matching Questions

1. Ethical relativism
2. A posteriori
3. Ontological Argument
4. Pragmatism
5. Antirealism

1. a Any view that denies the existence of a single universally applicable moral standard.
2. b An argument for the existence of God based on the nature of God's being.
3. c The philsophical school of thought that tries to mediate between idealism and materialism by rejecting all absolute first principle.
4. d Pertaining to knowledge stated in empirically verifiable statements; inductive reasoning.
5. e The doctrine that the objects of our senses do not exist independently of our perceptions, beliefs, concepts, and language.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. In metaphysics, the position that reality is ultimatley nonmatter.
   1. Fatalism
   2. Deism
   3. Realism
   4. Idealism
2. A theory contending that truth is a property of a related group of consistent statements.
   1. Panentheism
   2. Coherence Theory
   3. Correspondence Theory
   4. Phenomenology
3. The view that events are fixed and that humans can do nothing to alter them.
   1. Atheism
   2. Idealism
   3. Realism
   4. Fatalism
4. Pertaining to knowledge that is logically prior to experience.
   1. Atheism
   2. A posteriori
   3. Theism
   4. A Priori
5. A widespread belief in the 17th and 18th centuries in a God who, having created the universe, remains apart from it and administeres it through natural law.
   1. Atheism
   2. Deism
   3. Theism
   4. Realism

5 True/False Questions

1. Correspondence Theory → A theory contending that truth is a property of a related group of consistent statements.

   True        False

2. Analytic Philosophy → The theory that all forms of government are incompatible with individaul and social liberty and should be abolished.

   True        False

3. Categorical imperative. → Any view that denies the existence of a single universally applicable moral standard.

   True        False

4. Autonomy → The freedom of being able to decide for oneself by using one's own rationality.

   True        False

5. Panentheism → The belief that everything is God.

   True        False