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60 Cards in this Set
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Primary and secondary qualities along with the assumption of freedom, fails to be coherent with Kants phenomenal deterministic realm and his noumenal realm with his assumption of freedom. T/F
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False
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The academic discipline of "Philosophy" may have contributed significantly towards a teleological view of evolution. T/F
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TRUE
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The primary and secondary quality distinctions fails to make the connection between the mental experiences of the subject and the physical need of the brain in order to ahve the experience. T/F
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TRUE
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Ethics and Values is an atheistic or at least an agnostic academic study. T/F
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False
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Synthetic statements provide absolute truths at the expense of not providing new knowledge, i.e., tautological. T/F
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False
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If the hermeneutical circle is sound, then it is not the case that it is a vicous circle. T/F
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False
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One serious problem with secondary qualities is that since they are subjective, it follows that they are therefore in relative in relation to other people's experiences. T/F
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False
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It is possible to point to different coherent, scientific,factual, and inter-subjective world views and then use the practical approach of Principlism to help make moral decisions in pluralistic environments.T/F
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True
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Cognitive freedom is intuitively agreeable and practical. T/F
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True
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Ethics and Values can only be studied using a divine command or at least a faith based perspective. T/F
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False
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One central issue related to language is whether or not language determines thoughts. T/F
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TRUE
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The distinction between primary and secondary qualities can have the consequence of diminishing the reliablitly of empiriacal data. T/F
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TRUE
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Which of the following best defines metaphysics?
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-Deals with the question of existence and its properties
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If all thought is language and all language is thought then which of the following is true?
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-Complex language has the potential for more complex thoughts.
-Simple language is more prone to simple thoughts. |
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What is the tree falling in the forest analogy meant to communicate?
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-what can be known using subjective experiences.
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Most scientists recognize that sense data experiences faithfully represent the causation of such experiences. T/F
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False
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"Survival of the fittest" is either a contradiction to the term "natural selection" or else it becomes a tautology.
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True
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Instead of rejecting freedom, this text argues that freedom is an axiom or postualate. T/F
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True
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Solipsism is the problem of the individual being extended into the external world at the expense of the inner world of experience. T/F
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FALSE
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If hard determinism is true then moral responsibility becomes incoherent. T/F
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TRUE
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Priamary and secondary quality distinctions along with the assumption of freedom, fails to address David Hume's "is-ought" problem.
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False
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If all thought is language and all language is thought then which of the following is true?
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-No language means no thought
-Thought and language are indistinguishable -Some language means some thought |
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Who made the distinction between the non-physical noumenal realm and the physical phenomenal realm?
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Kant
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People practically do know that perceivers are not totally solipsistic as....
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-Moral agents are able to come to practical moral decision making
-they are able to interact with others and their environment -The are able to practically effect or extend themselves beyond their own experiences -Moral agents have intersubjective agreements with each other. |
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Which of the following is true regarding primary qualities?
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-Intrinsic characteristics of a physical object itself
-These qualities are ones that objects would continue to possess even if there were no perceiving beings in the world |
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Which of the following is a synthetic statement?
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-Green light means Go
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Body language is best able to deal with communications and thoughts that deal with which of the following?
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Pleasure and Pain
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It is quite possible that there is a categorical difference between an idea or thought and a language that represents such. T/F
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TRUE
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What type of statement is : All bachelors are unmarried men?
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Analytic
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John Stuart Mill argued which of the following?
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-Only a means to an end can be proven
-All ends are subjective experiences -Subjective ends can never be proven |
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If all the subjective cognitive experiences caused by both the sense data of language and all of the other prceptions, are all that a being can know about the world, then which of the following is true?
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-The nature of reality has been greatly reduced to that of a being's own cognitive faculties.
-Reality of the world is of the perceiver's own undrstanding -The nature of reality has been greatly reduced to that of a beings own cognitive faculties. |
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Color-Blind tests are based on teh strong empirical evidence that human perceive more similarly than dissimilarly.T/F
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True
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What is a tautological statement?
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-An analytic statement
-Predicate is contained in the subject |
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Solipsistic existence is not the case as reproduction does occur and solipsism would not have evolved if it did in fact interfere with the passing on of genetic traits and memes. T/F
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True
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The primary secondary qualities distinction does not detract from the holistic point of view. T/F
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False
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It is reasonable to argue that language is a type of sense data that stimulates ideas, but not the actual ideas themselves. T/F
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True
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Name a philosopher that may have greatly contributed to the nonacceptance of the process of evolution and/or natural selection.
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-Aristotle
-Socrates -Pythagoras -Plato |
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Intersubjective agreements are sufficient eveidence that there are shared subjective incommunicable experiences. In other words, just because an experience is subjective and incommunicable, it does not follow that the eperiences are relative. T/F
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TRUE
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The external world is silent and colorless, and the internal world of subjective experiences is often times noisy and colorful. T/F
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True
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The sophisticated realist believes that although we can only have sense-experience of secondary qualitites, the cause of those sense perceptions are in fact real. T/F
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True
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Value, Purpose, or Meaning....
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-Cannot be found independent of the mind in the physical universe.
-Cannot be empirically observed or pointed to -Is a subjective experience that cannot be found independent of or separate from a subjective a experience |
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Compatibilsm or soft determinism argues which of the following?
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-Effects that involves no coercion by another person defined as free
-All effects are caused meaning determined -Freedom and determinism are compatible |
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Which of the following is true?
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-The existence of the mental world of experience is necessarily dependent upon the physical world
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What type of statement is: Green light means go?
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Synthetic
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What conceptual issues occur with regard to freedom?
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-freedom as chaos
-Distinguishing free cause from determined cause -freedom is not falsifiable -An uncaused effect is an oxymoron |
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Which of the following is true regarding secondary qualities?
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-Without minds, there would be none of these qualities
-Characteristics that exist only when sensed and then only "in the mind" of the one who senses them |
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One attractive aspect of evolution is its ability to "observe" not only cause effect relations but also the teleological purposes or end that those causes serve.
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False
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Cognitive freedom is compatible with a deterministic emirical phenomenal world. T/F
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True
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Rationalists believe which of the following?
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-Some knowledge can be known to be true without empirical verification
-There is a distinction between primary and secondary qualities |
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All sense-data perceptions are primary qualities. T/F
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False
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Freedom is simply a random axiom or postulate and is therefore unlike the axioms and postulates of mathematics. T/F
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True
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Which of the following are empirical evidences against solipsism?
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-technology interacts with the environment
-Empiricism proves existence -Natural selection necessitates existence |
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For natural selection, which of the following are true?
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-Refers to the mechanism for the passing on of genetic traits
-Is independent of purpose or ends -Does not refer to purposes or ends and therefore means something totally different than survival of the fittest. |
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Kant,Mill, and Moore all agree that an end cannot be proben, rather they have to be accepted exiomatically as postulates or assumptions. T/F
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TRUE
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Evolution that is based on empirical facts can only provide deterministic cause and effect facts. T/F
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TRUE
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Match the following as analytic or Synthetic
-Predicate is contained in the subject -Green Light means GO -All bachelors are unmarried men -Predicate is not contained in the subject |
ANALYTIC
-Predicate is contained in the subject -All bachelors are unmarried men Synthetic -Green Light means GO -Predicate is not contained in the subject |
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Who argued that natural selection also occurs with regards to cognitive traditions, values, and beliefs?
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Dawkins
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If the only categories that exist are deterministic primary and secondary qualities then which of the following is true?
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-Freedom would be ignorance of causation
- Freedom would be an illusion |
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Primary and secondary qualites along with the assumption of freedom fails to be coherent with Mill's distinction between deterministic proofs and his unprovable ultimate ends. T/F
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False
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Secondary qualities that are caused by sense data are just as deterministic as primary qualities. T/F
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TRUE
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