Introduction to Philosophy

Achieve Test Prep: Philosophy

Chapter Three Review Questions 1. What term is referred to as a philosophical approach that attempts to give a direct description of our experience as it is in itself, without taking into account its psychological origins?

5. What view describes the sense experience is the primary source of all knowledge and that only careful attention to sense experience can enable us to understand the world?

a. Materialism b. Rationalism c. Phenomenology d. Empiricism

a. Rationalism b. Empiricism c. Materialism d. Dualistic

2. Whose revolutionary theory stated that the mind is a blank slate on which experience writes? a. Socrates

6. Which philosopher proposed an actively engaged and synthesizing intelligence that constructs knowledge based on experiences? a. Descartes

b. Locke c. Hume d. Kant

b. Plato c. Kant d. Hume

3. What term refers to the view of material substance (physical body) and immaterial substance (mind or soul) as two separate aspects of the self?

7. Which philosopher expanded the concept of the self to include the thinking, reasoning mind believing that the act of thinking about the self –of being self- conscious- is in itself proof that there is a self? a. Kant b. Descartes c. Locke d. Plato

a. Rationalism b. Materialism c. Dualistic d. Empiricism

4. What philosopher believed that our memories and experiences are made up of

impressions and ideas with no one constant invariable, unified identity? a. Plato b. Socrates c. Kant d. Hume

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