Berekely believed that the only truly existent things are the mind and God
true
John Locke held the view that we know everything from experiences
true
Hume was a
skeptic
Descartes' "evil deceiver" is employed to show that
almost anything can be doubted
Descartes applied a philosophical technique of
methodological doubt
Before he introduces the evil deceiver, Descartes' dream argument has show that
One can doubt all of the information of any senses
An idealist is unlikely also to be
a materialist
I think, therefore I am" serves Descartes as
a truth he cannot doubt
According to Descartes, "Does the same wax remain after this change?
Yes
Descartes uses the wax argument to prove that
we know mental things with greater clarity and distinctness than material things
Descartes' wax argument illuminates the concept of
substance
Prior to the wax argument, Descartes uses his "dream argument" to show that
almost anything can be doubted
Descartes doubted things in what two ways?
the dream argument and the "evil genius" argument
Relativism is the thesis that there is no single correct view of reality, no single truth
true
Dialectic is a logic developed by Hegel in which different forms of thought of philosophies are arranged according to increasing scope or sophistication
true
Kant believed in only one set of rational rule that constitutes our experience, therefore rejecting relativism
true
Hermeneutics is a method originally applied to improve our understanding of
the Bible and other texts
The driving principle of Richard Rorty's pragmatism is
solidarity
According to _____ and _____, we will be freed from confusion and suffering if we can escape the constraint of the will
Schopenhauer, the Buddha
Nietzsche famous wrote that "Truth is ___
error
In Hegel, ______ is the expression of truth as it is manifested in human history
spirit
Kant believes that we ______ our experience in the sense that we provide rules and structures according to which we experiences objects
constitute of "set up
Which is NOT one of Kant's critiques?
The Critique of Pure Intuition
Which two disciplines did Kant weave together into a single cohesive philosophy?
rationalism and empiricism
of what can we be certain, according to Kant?
the rules of our own experience
The logical positivists held that any claim that makes no difference to our experience, and therefore cannot be tested, is meaningless.
True
An inference from one statement to another according to a set of rules of inference is called
a deduction
Hegel had a holistic worldview in which consciousness and the world are integrated
True
Who thought that Hegel had it backward, viz. that is isn't the case that ideas determine history but rather that history (particular economic details of history) determines ideas?
Marx
Hegel said that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
True
Schopenhauer altered Kant's philosophy by invoking the Buddhist conception of the "veil of Maya" with the outcome that our experience of the world is
illusory
Both Husserl and Kant use the word transcendental to mean the basic and only rules by wich we constitute the world.
True
What is the natural human ego being reduced to in phenomenological reduction?
the transcendental ego
husserl thought that the way to do philosophy is to study consciousness
true
What does Heidegger try to uncover in his hermeneutical phenomenology?
hidden meanings in experience
Hermeneutics may be employed to appreciate cross-cultural and intracultural complexities
true
what does nagami suggest are the keys to understanding other cultures and other individuals?
openness and listening
Radical feminists acknowledge other people's points of view but deny that they all have equal value.
true
Perspectivism is the position that validates the context-specific quality of all discourse
true
Russell assumed that knowledge is inferred, or derived from sense data
true
which of the following is not one of Russell's points in attempting to discover the nature of truth?
truth and falsehood are dependent on the internal quality of the beliefs and not the relations
What kind of reasoning did Locke advocate as the best method for making generilizations from experience?
inductive
Quine argues that observation sentences are
all of the above
Which beliefs did Hume want consigned to the flames?
metaphysical beliefs: God, material substance
Noam Chomsky attributes the similarities in human thinking to an innate capacity for
true
Hume denied the principle of universal causation, which states that every event has its cause
true