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Question: Of the following who would be most likely to take the position that humans are responsible for their actions?

Answer Options:

nondeterminist and soft determinist nondeterminist and hard determinist hard determinist and mechanist

Answer: nondeterminist and soft determinist

Question: Projecting human attributes onto nature is called:

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vitalism animism anthropomorphism primitivism

Answer: anthropomorphism

Question: Which example best illustrates the concept of theory of the mind?

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While walking down the street, Camilla turns the corner to avoid a man with an angry look on his face. Brandon’s brain controls his body, and his mind controls his thoughts and emotions. Stephanie understands that she is looking at a flower because of the coordinated processes of sensation and perception. Javier reads a passage in a book, and draws from his past experience to understand its meaning.

Answer: While walking down the street, Camilla turns the corner to avoid a man with an angry look on his face.

Question: Philosophy began:

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when logos replaced mythos with the discovery of the brain as the center of intelligence with the introduction of deductive reasoning to explain how the supernatural controls natural events

Answer: when logos replaced mythos

Question: Who was the first to emphasize natural explanations and to minimize supernatural explanations?

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Anaximander Thales Heraclitus Democritus

Answer: Thales

Question: What important epistemological question was raised by Heraclitus’ philosophy?

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How can something be known if it is constantly changing? Why would a man want to step into the same river more than once? What does it mean to be me?

Answer: How can something be known if it is constantly changing?

Question: Parmenides believed that knowledge is attained only through rational thought because sensory experience:

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is a distance from the truth is a supernatural force provides illusion is logical

Answer: provides illusion

Question: In order for an object to pass from point A to point B, it must first traverse half the distance between those two points, and then half of the remaining distance, and so forth. Therefore A can never logically reach point B. This scenario best illustrates:

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philosophical inconsistency the relativity of truth a Kuhnian paradigm clash Zeno’s paradox

Answer: Zeno’s paradox

Question: Which aspect of Empedocles’ philosophy might be used to explain the types of intrapersonal and extrapersonal conflicts described later in history by Freud?

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The clashes of atoms The elements of earth, fire, air, and water The reincarnation of the soul The forces of love and strife that wax and wane within us

Answer: The forces of love and strife that wax and wane within us

Question: Because Democritus attempted to explain events occurring in one domain (observable phenomena) in terms of events occurring in another domain (the arrangements of atoms), he is considered a(n):

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animist physicist Orphist reductionist

Answer: reductionist

Question: For Democritus, perception occurred when atoms emanating from the surface of objects entered the _ and were transmitted to the _.

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pores of the body; heart sensory systems of the body; heart sensory systems of the body; brain

Answer: sensory systems of the body; brain

Question: According to Plato, whether one is a philosopher-king, a soldier, or a slave, is largely determined by:

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educational experience personal efforts the social influence of one’s parents biological inheritance

Answer: biological inheritance

Question: In Aristotelian thought, the particular form or pattern of an object is its ___ cause; the force that transforms matter into a particular form is its _ cause; and the purpose for which an object exists is its ___ cause.

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formal; efficient; final material; formal; just final; efficient; just

Answer: formal; efficient; final

Question: Because Aristotle assumed that everything in nature exists for a purpose, his theory is labeled:

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empirical nativistic religious teleological

Answer: teleological

Question: According to Aristotle, we perceive environmental objects because:

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their eidola go through one or more of the five senses and then to the brain tiny copies of them enter the pores of the body their movement influences a medium, which in turn stimulates one or more of the five senses their eidola go through one or more of the five senses and then to the heart

Answer: their movement influences a medium, which in turn stimulates one or more of the five senses

Question: For Aristotle, sensory experience:

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is the only thing necessary for attaining knowledge is necessary but not sufficient for attaining knowledge inhibits the attainment of knowledge is unnecessary for attaining knowledge

Answer: is necessary but not sufficient for attaining knowledge

Question: According to Aristotle, the unmoved mover:

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sets nature in motion and does little else has the same essence as the form of the good is nature is God

Answer: sets nature in motion and does little else

TCP-IP mcq

Question: Of the following who would be most likely to take the position that humans are responsible for their actions?

Question: Projecting human attributes onto nature is called:

Question: Which example best illustrates the concept of theory of the mind?

Question: Philosophy began:

Question: Who was the first to emphasize natural explanations and to minimize supernatural explanations?

Question: What important epistemological question was raised by Heraclitus’ philosophy?

Question: Parmenides believed that knowledge is attained only through rational thought because sensory experience:

Question: In order for an object to pass from point A to point B, it must first traverse half the distance between those two points, and then half of the remaining distance, and so forth. Therefore A can never logically reach point B. This scenario best illustrates:

Question: Which aspect of Empedocles’ philosophy might be used to explain the types of intrapersonal and extrapersonal conflicts described later in history by Freud?

Question: Because Democritus attempted to explain events occurring in one domain (observable phenomena) in terms of events occurring in another domain (the arrangements of atoms), he is considered a(n):

Question: For Democritus, perception occurred when atoms emanating from the surface of objects entered the _____ and were transmitted to the _____.

Question: According to Plato, whether one is a philosopher-king, a soldier, or a slave, is largely determined by:

Question: In Aristotelian thought, the particular form or pattern of an object is its _____ cause; the force that transforms matter into a particular form is its _____ cause; and the purpose for which an object exists is its _____ cause.

Question: Because Aristotle assumed that everything in nature exists for a purpose, his theory is labeled:

Question: According to Aristotle, we perceive environmental objects because:

Question: For Aristotle, sensory experience:

Question: According to Aristotle, the unmoved mover:

Question: For Democritus, perception occurred when atoms emanating from the surface of objects entered the _ and were transmitted to the _.

Question: In Aristotelian thought, the particular form or pattern of an object is its ___ cause; the force that transforms matter into a particular form is its _ cause; and the purpose for which an object exists is its ___ cause.