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