Chapter 2 Self Quiz

Appearance and Reality
1. The "problem of the external world" is the problem of whether there exists one's own mind and its images.

2. The theory of direct realism is that we are in direct contact with private images coming to us from the external world.

3. One difference between "Add Some More Boils" and "Why Don't You Just Wake Up" is that in "Add Some More Boils"

4. George Berkeley believed in the existence of

5. Which theory denies that we always perceive physical objects by means of mental images?

6. "One can easily imagine millions of individuals running thousands of variations on hundreds of themes, each containing billions of simulated individuals." This quotation is from

7. "Such qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities." This quotation is from

8. Wittgenstein's private language argument has been used as an argument against

9. "How can I be dreaming? Just now, I asked my friend if I was dreaming and she said 'No.'" The problem with this argument is that

10. The idea of the brain in the vat is to challenge

11. George Berkeley claimed that our everyday images of objects came from

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