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Chapter 06 Self Quiz
Philosophers use the term empirical evidence for evidence acquired by
the scientific method.
rigorous, logic-based argumentation.
sense perception.
All of the above
Descartes focused on using which of the following methods?
A posteriori
A priori
Scientific
Naturalistic
The "argument from perspectival variation" is used to support
direct realism.
indirect realism.
direct idealism.
indirect idealism.
In Locke's terminology, material objects are objects that exist
in prime matter.
in the natural world.
within the minds of materialists.
outside any mind (and are not themselves minds).
Naive representationalism claims that
the ideas generated in perception perfectly resemble the material objects they represent.
setting aside occasional cases of illusion, the ideas generated in perception perfectly resemble the material objects they represent.
setting aside occasional cases of illusion, the ideas generated in perception closely resemble the material objects they represent.
all theories that assume a similarity between material objects and the ideas that represent them are naive.
Locke argued that our idea of heat represents heat, but the idea of heat doesn't resemble heat itself, just as the word
heat represents heat, but it doesn't resemble heat.
porcupine represents porcupines, but it doesn't resemble a porcupine.
pain represents pain, but it doesn't resemble pain.
word represents words, but it doesn't resemble a word.
Which of the following is/are included among Lockean secondary qualities?
Shape
Solidity
Color
All of the above
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