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Which one is not an Empiricist? |
Plato
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According to the empiricist worldview, ________ is (are) the primary source of all knowledge. |
senses
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The branch of philosophy known as the study of human knowledge is ______. |
epistemology
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Which of the following is a central claim of George Berkeley? |
“To be is to be perceived”
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Which is not true of Empiricism? |
Truth is true regardless of the data.
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What is not true of “A Priori Knowledge” |
Objective color of red
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Rationalism states that there is no universal, objective knowledge |
False |
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Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy defined as the study of human knowledge. |
False |
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The Constitution and Declaration of Independence express an Empirical worldview. |
False |
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Rationalism thinks that reason represents reality as it truly is. |
True |
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Empiricism favors A Priori knowledge. |
False |
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Socrates was a great Empiricist. |
False |
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No book except the Bible was more influential in 1700s than John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. |
True |
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Empiricists state that rational arguments are the best source of truth. |
False |
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Philosophers are concerned with the question of whether we can know anything at all. |
True |
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David Hume says that all we know are psychological habits of our experience about the interactions of the world, not true facts about the world. |
True |
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According to empiricism, scientific theory can never be proven to be true with absolute certainty. |
True |
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Empiricism claims that “There are no logically necessary truths about the world.” But this assertion is a logical contradiction. |
True |
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According to empiricism, scientific theory can never be proven to be true with absolute certainty |
True |
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According to rationalism, basic ethical principles are thought to be “A Priori.” |
True |