Chapter 3 Self-Quiz

Truth & Knowledge
. Berkeley argues that an idea cannot resemble anything but an idea, so if there is an "original" object, it is itself and idea.

. In Hume's view, causation was an example of knowledge as "a matter of fact."

. Leibniz argued that the senses, although necessary for all our actual knowledge, are not sufficient to give us the whole of it, since the senses never give anything except examples, that is to say particular or individual truths.

. John Locke held the view that we know everything from experience.

. Descartes believed that beliefs could be justified by experience alone.

. Kant argued that we experience events in a cause and effect relationship because we make our experience conform to causal rules.

. Kant influenced German Romantic philosophers who replaced his notion of "constitution" with the notion of "creation".

. Russell said that sensations were the direct means of ascertaining the properties of objects.

. Hermeneutics is a term used in philosophy to refer to the discipline of interpreting and understanding the world.

. Hume was a __________.

. Descartes declares in his first meditation that a good God would not deceive him and since God is good, it must be a __________ deceiving him.

. Descartes applied a philosophical technique of __________.

. Before he introduced the evil deceiver, Descartes's dream argument had shown that __________.

. __________ suggested that life is like a text, and the purpose of our lives is to understand that text.

. "I think, therefore I am" served Descartes as __________.

. According to Quine, epistemology is a subset of what scientific study?

. Descartes used the wax argument to prove that __________.

. __________ was a continental rationalist.

. Prior to the wax argument, Descartes used his "dream argument" to show that __________.

. __________ proposes eliminating the idea "analytic truth" and recognizing community-wide acceptance as a more useful criterion of truth with respect to such statements?

. Kant believed that we __________ our experience in the sense that we provide rules and structures according to which we experience objects.

. According to __________, the things of the world are nothing other than ideas in the mind of God.

. Which two disciplines did Kant weave together into a single cohesive philosophy?

. What type of reasoning did Locke advocate as the best method for making generalizations from experience?

. Hume refuses to accept the existence of __________.

. Hume's argues that simple ideas are derived from __________.

. Grosz denies that the __________ of an author necessarily corresponds to the sexual orientation of a text.

. __________ is a common name for Descartes circular argument, in which he argues that the proof of God's existence is in God himself.

. Empiricism is the philosophy that demands that all knowledge, except for logical truths and principles of mathematics, comes from __________.

. Knowledge can be defined as __________.

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