T.o.K Midterm

Question 1

Rene Descartes believes that people have two distinct parts, what are they?

Answer 1

mind and body

Question 2

The idea known as the _______ creates a problem in explaining how these two parts interact with each other.

Answer 2

mind-body problem

Question 3

Some people believe that the only thing that exists is matter and are known as?

Answer 3

materialists

Question 4

Some people believe that the only thing that exists in the world are ideas and are known as?

Answer 4

idealists

Question 5

What is the method employed by Descartes in his Meditations I and II?

Answer 5

radical doubt

Question 6

Descartes argues that people are born with ____ knowledge or capacity allowing us to to understand the world around us.

Answer 6

innate

Question 7

John Locke argues against this idea, claiming that all knowledge is sense knowledge and that when we are born we are a ______________.

Answer 7

blank slate

Question 8

What substance is used by both Descartes and Locke in their arguments about human knowledge?

Answer 8

wax

Question 9

What faculty do both Descartes and Locke agree is used is used to make sense of our sensations?

Answer 9

reason

Question 10

What does the term “a priori” mean?

Answer 10

can be known independent of experience

Question 11

Sigmund Freud’s mind map

Answer 11

Ego – conscious mind, what we let people see
Super Ego – filter
ID – animalistic impulses, subconscious mind

Question 12

What Greek philosopher said that the unexamined life is not worth living?

Answer 12

Socrates

Question 13

What is the term for someone who will believe anything?

Answer 13

gullible

Question 14

What is the term used to describe someone who questions everything?

Answer 14

sceptic

Question 15

The true nature of truth: coherence, pragmatic, or correspondence:
Which theory affirms concepts or propositions because they are worthwhile or useful?

Answer 15

pragmatic theory

Question 16

The true nature of truth: coherence, pragmatic, or correspondence:
Which is identified with idealistic philosophers?

Answer 16

coherence theory

Question 17

When I explain to a person why I believe what I believe, what is the term for this?

Answer 17

justified true belief

Question 18

If you see an event happen, what kind of knowledge do you have?

Answer 18

first-hand

Question 19

What is the most ubiquitous form of second-hand learning, so much so that we usually take it for granted?

Answer 19

culture

Question 20

Artist that create illusions and magicians both count on our what?

Answer 20

expectations

Question 21

Due to the fact that we are constantly being bombarded with stimuli, what does our brain have to do with this data?

Answer 21

classify it so it is useful

Question 22

Baseball umpires call runners safe or out to first base by seeing the play take place. On close calls, what might they use?

Answer 22

second sensation

Question 23

If you are presented with a new idea, in the coherence theory, this idea must do what?

Answer 23

fit with existing beliefs

Question 24

What are the three features of language?

Answer 24

open-ended and creative
rule governed
intended

Question 25

The word means what it means is which theory or meaning?

Answer 25

definition theory

Question 26

When using a term like freedom, a visual may enter your thoughts, what is this theory of meaning called?

Answer 26

image theory

Question 27

People will sometimes use language that is ______ so if things do not turn out well, the meaning of the term did not imply consequences.

Answer 27

vague

Question 28

When someone does not wish to offend, or present bad news on a harsh way, they may use a what?

Answer 28

euphemism

Question 29

What are three types of definitions?

Answer 29

stipulative
theoretical
lexical

Question 30

What are two types of formal reason?

Answer 30

deduction and induction

Question 31

AEIO and categorical syllogisms

Answer 31

AEIO and categorical syllogisms