Chapter 9 Quiz

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. Descartes sets out to examine his opinions in order to __________.

better understand his nature correct incorrect

achieve intellectual purity correct incorrect

establish a firm and permanent structure for the sciences correct incorrect

better understand God correct incorrect

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. Descartes says that, for all he knows, he may be __________.

dreaming correct incorrect

a god correct incorrect

infallible correct incorrect

perfect correct incorrect

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. Descartes argues against trusting the senses on the grounds that __________.

they never directly deceive him correct incorrect

they sometimes deceive him correct incorrect

God allows sensory deception correct incorrect

sense perception is indubitable correct incorrect

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. Descartes seeks __________ as the foundation of knowledge.

divine revelation correct incorrect

probability correct incorrect

certainty correct incorrect

sense experience correct incorrect

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. Epistemology is the philosophical study of __________.

reality correct incorrect

knowledge correct incorrect

divinity correct incorrect

morality correct incorrect

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. In order to know a proposition, you must believe, it must be __________, and you must be __________ in believing it.

objective; certain correct incorrect

true; justified correct incorrect

necessary; confident correct incorrect

indubitable; correct correct incorrect

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. A priori knowledge is knowledge gained __________.

from divine revelation correct incorrect

from sense experience correct incorrect

independently of or before sense experience correct incorrect

from tradition correct incorrect

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. Those who believe that through unaided reason we can come to know what the world is like are called __________.

empiricists correct incorrect

skeptics correct incorrect

rationalists correct incorrect

dogmatists correct incorrect

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. __________ is the view that our knowledge of the empirical world comes solely through sense experience.

Rationalism correct incorrect

Empiricism correct incorrect

Dogmatism correct incorrect

Skepticism correct incorrect

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. Descartes deepens his doubts at the end of Meditation I by supposing he is being deceived by __________.

the Church correct incorrect

an evil genius correct incorrect

God correct incorrect

sensation correct incorrect

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. After using the dream argument to cast doubt on his knowledge of material reality, Descartes extends his skepticism to include knowledge of __________.

morality correct incorrect

God's existence correct incorrect

Platonic Forms correct incorrect

mathematics correct incorrect

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. At the beginning of Meditation II, Descartes arrives at the certainty of __________.

the evil genius correct incorrect

God's existence correct incorrect

his existence as a thinking thing correct incorrect

his sense perception correct incorrect

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. Descartes claims to have discovered a first principle for acquiring knowledge according to which all things __________.

known to be true and good are knowable correct incorrect

clearly and distinctly perceived are true correct incorrect

attributable to divine providence are true correct incorrect

hidden from the evil genius are knowable correct incorrect

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. Descartes argues that he is capable of knowledge because __________.

God is not subject to the evil genius's machinations correct incorrect

the evil genius cannot prevent him from knowing that things like wax exist correct incorrect

God would not allow him to be deceived if he correctly applies his God-given abilities correct incorrect

the certainty of the "I think" means he can know objects are real correct incorrect

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. Descartes asserts, "I am, I exist, is necessarily true __________."

so long as God does not deceive me correct incorrect

each time that I am not being deceived by the evil genius correct incorrect

each time that I pronounce it, or that I mentally conceive it correct incorrect

each time that God reminds me correct incorrect

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. Descartes says that because it is possible that an evil genius is deceiving him, he can never be sure of anything, including his own existence.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. According to Descartes, only beliefs that are certain can count as knowledge.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. For Descartes, the statement "I am, I exist" is necessarily true every time he utters it.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. In order to establish a firm foundation for knowledge, Descartes sets out to reject all and only his false opinions)

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Descartes believes that anything conceivable is logically possible.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Descartes asserts that God would not deceive him because God is perfect.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Although Descartes is able to cast doubt on his knowledge of material reality, he finds the abstract propositions of mathematics impossible to doubt.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Descartes's first principle of knowledge is about the clarity and distinctness of his ideas.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Descartes thinks that, since God could be deceiving him, God is not all good.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. According to Descartes, material bodies are ultimately known by an intuition of the mind rather than by the senses.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect