Chapter 6 Self-Assessment

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

. Descartes declares that an evil demon

. Descartes declares that he is a

. Descartes reasons that the very fact that he is thinking shows that he

. At first, Descartes supposes that everything he sees is

. Berkeley concludes that God exists because

. Locke asserts that all the components of reason and knowledge come from

. Locke believes that we have nothing in our minds that did not come from

. Locke draws a distinction between

. The difficulty of justifying the assumption that the future will be like the past is known as the problem of

. According to Hume, we rely on the principle of induction because it is

. According to Hume, all our thought is restricted to manipulating the materials provided to us by

. Hume believes that propositions that are discoverable by the mere operation of thought are those regarding

. Hume says that all reasonings concerning matters of fact are founded on the relation of

. The philosophical study of knowledge is known as

. Berkeley called __________ a manifest repugnancy.

. Hume's strict empiricism leads naturally to

. True or False? Descartes says there are very few ways that we can tell whether we are dreaming.

. True or False? Descartes says that because it is possible that an evil genius is deceiving him, he can never know that he himself exists.

. True or False? Descartes concludes that there is no way out of his deep skepticism.

. True or False? Descartes declares that he does not know with certainty that he is.

. True or False? For Descartes, the statement "I am, I exist: is necessarily true every time he utters it.

. True or False? Hume believes that external objects resemble internal perceptions.

. True or False? Berkeley denies that sensible things have any real existence.

. True or False? According to Locke, all knowledge begins with sensory experience.

. True or False? According to Locke, all knowledge begins with sensory experience.

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