This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Art Humanities > Philosophy > Class 12 Philosophy Chapter 2 Epistemology The Theory Of Knowledge – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Philosophy Chapter 2 Epistemology The Theory Of Knowledge Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Propositional knowledge is ..... A) Knowing how. B) Knowing that. C) Knowing of. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Knowing that. 2. What is the key principle of "Ockham's Razor" ? A) Slicing away at someone's beliefs to destroy them is how you gain eventual philosophical truth. B) Often the simplest answer is the correct one. C) The line between "right" and "wrong" is razor thin. D) Philosophy, like a razor, can be used for good or evil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Often the simplest answer is the correct one. 3. What is the main focus of rationalism in epistemology? A) Knowledge derived from scientific experimentation. B) Knowledge derived from logical reasoning. C) Knowledge derived from empirical evidence. D) Knowledge derived from sensory experience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Knowledge derived from logical reasoning. 4. Which best describes "infallibilism" ? A) Beliefs must be infallible to be knowledge. B) Reasoning cannot be based on false premises. C) Agents must use a reliable method of justification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beliefs must be infallible to be knowledge. 5. Was 'Gettier' for or against the tripartite definition of knowledge? A) Against. B) For. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Against. 6. What is a necessary truth? A) Something you need to know in order to know something else. B) Something only true sometimes. C) Something true when it is necessary. D) Something that is always true (often definitionally). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Something that is always true (often definitionally). 7. An argument which uses observations first to make a "rough" or "most likely" and simple conclusion is called what? A) Deductive. B) Abductive. C) Inductive. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abductive. 8. Which of the following is considered a reliable process according to reliabilism? A) Guesswork. B) Following superstitions. C) Identifying objects by visual observation. D) Flipping a coin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Identifying objects by visual observation. 9. Pragmatic epistemology A) Knowledge is identified with models aiming to represent the reality in such a way as to maximally simplify problem-solving. B) Knowledge is viewed as independent of any concrete individual. C) Knowledge is built by subjects in such a way as to maximally contribute to their adaptation to the existing conditions. D) Knowledge is the result of reflection of external reality by means of sense organs and other observation instruments. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Knowledge is identified with models aiming to represent the reality in such a way as to maximally simplify problem-solving. 10. Which belief system denies the existence of God? / Sistem kepercayaan manakah yang menafikan kewujudan Tuhan? A) Theism / Theisme. B) Polytheism / Politeisme. C) Agnosticism / Agnostisisme. D) Atheism / Atheisme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Atheism / Atheisme. 11. What is one thing skeptics are sure of? A) Sense experience. B) Rational thought. C) Their own existence. D) God. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Their own existence. 12. A belief is ..... A) Something that is the case in the world. It cannot be true or false, they just are. B) A thought about the world. Can be true or false. C) A statement about the world. Can be true or false. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A thought about the world. Can be true or false. 13. What is the core of Correspondence Theory? A) True if it matches reality or fact. B) True if it works in practice. C) True if it sounds similar. D) True if it fits with beliefs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True if it matches reality or fact. 14. Origin word of Epistemology term A) Knowlege, Information. B) Episteme, logos. C) Wisdom, knowledge. D) Epistemology, logic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Episteme, logos. 15. This is the main critisism of "Reliabilism" A) Reliability is highly subjective and therefore debatable. E.g. someone might think information on the news is a reliable source and someone else might think the news is bias. B) Other than maths and analytic truths, there are very few substantive propositions which we can know for sure. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reliability is highly subjective and therefore debatable. E.g. someone might think information on the news is a reliable source and someone else might think the news is bias. 16. What is the knowledge we gain from experience? A) Impressions. B) Ideas. C) A posteriori knowledge. D) A priori knowledge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A posteriori knowledge. 17. What's a "lemma" ? A) A claim made part way through an argument. B) A consequent that contradicts an antecedent. C) A claim that is proven to be false. D) A false claim made part way through an argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A claim made part way through an argument. 18. Example of intuitive knowledge A) The earth is round. B) Four is more than two. C) Seoul is in Korea. D) A ball is round. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Four is more than two. 19. What is the core of Pragmatic Theory? A) True if it is useful or works in practice. B) They mean the same thing. C) True if it matches a fact. D) True if it fits with our beliefs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True if it is useful or works in practice. 20. Which subtopic of epistemology questions the possibility of knowledge? A) Rationalism. B) Relativism. C) Empiricism. D) Skepticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Skepticism. 21. Propositions known innately are ..... A) A priori. B) A posteriori. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A priori. 22. In the Pragmatist Theory of Truth, "what works" means: A) What feels good to a person. B) What fits well with other ideas. C) What works in real and shared experience. D) What exactly matches the world. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) What works in real and shared experience. 23. What concept did Nietzsche believe in? A) Synthetic a posteriori knowledge. B) Skepticism. C) Romantic primitivism. D) Constructivism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Romantic primitivism. 24. Who is considered to be the father of pragmatism? A) William Shakespeare. B) Plato. C) Charles Sanders Pierce. D) John Locke. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Charles Sanders Pierce. 25. Does relativism believe in universal truths? A) No. B) Yes. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No. 26. What is the classical definition of knowledge according to epistemology? A) Justified true belief. B) Strong feeling. C) Logical guess. D) Verified perception. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Justified true belief. 27. Which subtopic of epistemology deals with the study of theories of knowledge? A) Epistemological Theories. B) Theory of Epistemology. C) Knowledge Theories. D) Study of Knowledge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epistemological Theories. 28. Is there life after death? A) Metaphysics. B) Epistemology. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphysics. 29. Who wrote the "Tripartite theory of knowledge" A) Plato. B) Gettier. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plato. 30. Who argues that knowledge is achieved when the person is in 'cognitive contact' with reality A) Zagzebski. B) Kant. C) Plato. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Zagzebski. 31. Which philosopher is sceptical about whether terms like 'intelligence' or 'knowledge' can have a definition. A) Peter Singer. B) Linda Zagzebski. C) Plato. D) Rene Descartes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Linda Zagzebski. 32. 'Post boxes are red' is ..... A) Necessary. B) Contingent. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Contingent. 33. Acquaintance knowledge is ..... A) Knowing that. B) Knowing of. C) Knowing how. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Knowing of. 34. What is intuition? A) A special gift of insight or a gut feeling. B) Processed data from sense perception. C) Frameworks that already exist within the mind. D) The raw data of sense perception. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The raw data of sense perception. 35. According to Plato, what is our innate knowledge? A) Knowledge we have gained from experience without being aware of it. B) Knowledge that are told by someone else. C) Our recollected memory of the Realm of Forms. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Our recollected memory of the Realm of Forms. 36. What is the relationship between faith and reason? A) Metaphysics. B) Epistemology. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epistemology. 37. Which best describes "tripartite definition of knowledge" ? A) Knowledge is a justified true belief. B) Reasoning cannot be based on false premises. C) Agents must use a reliable method of justification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Knowledge is a justified true belief. 38. Which subtopic of epistemology emphasizes the role of reason in acquiring knowledge? A) Skepticism. B) Rationalism. C) Intuitionism. D) Empiricism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rationalism. 39. Senses, Sources, Memory and Inference are examples of ..... A) Possible ways to determine if a belief is reliable (Reliabilism). B) JTB (Justifies True Belief). C) No False Lemmas. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Possible ways to determine if a belief is reliable (Reliabilism). 40. Who came up with the phenomenal world vs the noumenal world? A) C.S. Lewis. B) Plato. C) Willard V.O. Quine. D) Immanuel Kant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Immanuel Kant. 41. What does "Infallibilism" mean? A) JTB is not sufficient for knowledge-merely believing in something doesn't make it true. B) A belief is knowledge if it is taken on faith. C) A belief is knowledge if it is justified. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) JTB is not sufficient for knowledge-merely believing in something doesn't make it true. 42. What is a posteriori A) Knowledge that comes after sense data. Knowledge that depends on evidence, including science and aspects of personal knowledge. B) Knowledge that precedes sense data, derived from our ability to reason. Independent from experience. C) Practice of questioning the reliability of our knowledge. D) Reason is the foundation of knowledge, we create knowledge in our minds. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Knowledge that comes after sense data. Knowledge that depends on evidence, including science and aspects of personal knowledge. 43. Which of the following is NOT an anchor point of empiricism? A) Reason is a primary source of our knowledge about reality. B) The only source of genuine knowledge is sense experience. C) Reason is an unreliable and inadequate route to knowledge unless grounded in sense experience. D) There is no evidence of innate ideas within the mind that are known apart from experience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reason is a primary source of our knowledge about reality. 44. What is samsara? A) Belief in the life cycle-reincarnation. B) An illusion where things appear to be present but are not what they seem. C) The idea that things only exist when they are percieved. D) The practice of questioning the reliability of our knowledge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Belief in the life cycle-reincarnation. 45. Ability knowledge is ..... A) Knowing how. B) Knowing of. C) Knowing that. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Knowing how. 46. IN which of Plato's dialogues do we find the definition of knowledge? A) Meno. B) Parmenides. C) Euthyphro. D) Crito. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meno. 47. The idea that events are related so that one event causes another is called ..... A) Causality. B) Constant conjunction. C) Empiricism. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Causality. 48. Which example is used in reliabilism to illustrate a process that does not yield knowledge? A) Logical deduction. B) Mathematical proof. C) Scientific experimentation. D) Accurate visual identification that does not exclude the presence of a twin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Accurate visual identification that does not exclude the presence of a twin. 49. According to rationalism, is knowledge primarily derived from experience or reason? A) Reason. B) Experience. C) Intuition. D) Emotion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reason. 50. Feeling that something is true is called ..... A) Intuition. B) A priori knowledge. C) Sense experience. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Intuition. 51. How do modern philosophers combine the Correspondence and Coherence theories of truth A) Use one to explain truth, another to check it. B) Reject Coherence Theory completely. C) Say Pragmatism replaced both. D) Think they mean the same thing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Use one to explain truth, another to check it. 52. Who is known for the theory of Forms? A) Socrates. B) Plato. C) Aristotle. D) Heraclitus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plato. 53. This is the main critisism of "infallibilism" A) Reliability is highly subjective and therefore debatable. E.g. someone might think information on the news is a reliable source and someone else might think the news is bias. B) Other than maths and analytic truths, there are very few substantive propositions which we can know for sure. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Other than maths and analytic truths, there are very few substantive propositions which we can know for sure. 54. What is the representative theory of perception? A) Reason is the foundation of knowledge. B) Things only exist when they are percieved, the existence of anything is dependent on perception. C) Senes data is the foundation of knowledge. D) The world we see, is not the real world itself, but merely an illusion/representation of that world . Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The world we see, is not the real world itself, but merely an illusion/representation of that world . 55. What are "Gettier cases" ? A) Examples of truth arising from a false belief. B) Examples of propositions that are true because the person making the assertion can't be mistaken. C) Examples of justified true belief without knowledge. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Examples of justified true belief without knowledge. 56. Rationalism believes that knowledge comes from what? / Rasionalisme percaya bahawa ilmu datang daripada apa? A) Experience and observation / Pengalaman dan pemerhatian. B) Dreams and emotions / Mimpi dan emosi. C) Logical thinking and reasoning / Pemikiran dan penaakulan logik. D) The five senses / Lima deria. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logical thinking and reasoning / Pemikiran dan penaakulan logik. 57. Idealism states that reality is primarily made of what? / Idealism menyatakan bahawa realiti terutamanya terdiri daripada apa A) Physical objects / Objek fizikal. B) Atoms and molecules / Atom dan molekul. C) Ideas and consciousness / Idea dan kesedaran. D) Space and time / Ruang dan masa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ideas and consciousness / Idea dan kesedaran. 58. What are impressions? A) Sense experiences, emotions. B) Thoughts. C) Imagination. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sense experiences, emotions. 59. Which of the tripartite elements which are necessary for knowledge is perception concerned with? A) Justified. B) True. C) Belief. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Justified. 60. Find the antonym:absolute A) Clear. B) Implicit. C) False. D) Relative. 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