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Class 12 Philosophy Chapter 2 Epistemology The Theory Of Knowledge Quiz 1 (25 MCQs)

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1. The problem of evil are human actions free, or are they determined by some forces outside of our control?

Correct Answer: A) Metaphysics.

2. What are the sources of knowledge?

Correct Answer: B) Epistemology.

3. Find the synonym:apprehension

Correct Answer: A) Understanding.

4. Which of the following is NOT an anchor point of rationalism?

Correct Answer: C) The only source of genuine knowledge is sense experience.

5. Idealism

Correct Answer: A) The role of reasons and senses in knowledge.

6. Analytic propositions are .....

Correct Answer: B) Necessarily true, based on A Priori knowledge.

7. Memetics

Correct Answer: C) Knowledge is viewed as independent of any concrete individual.

8. Do absolutes exist, and if so, can we know them?

Correct Answer: B) Epistemology.

9. What is the core of Coherence Theory?

Correct Answer: B) True if it fits with other beliefs.

10. From Plato's Allegory of the Cave, what represents an earthly human existence without philosophical contemplation?

Correct Answer: B) The prisoners chained inside the cave.

11. Hume's fork:relations of ideas

Correct Answer: A) Knowledge established from concepts (established by experience) by pure thought or reason.

12. Which theory adds an additional condition?

Correct Answer: B) No False Lemmas.

13. Is the knowledge gained from perception ..... ?

Correct Answer: B) A Posteriori.

14. Sense data

Correct Answer: C) Mental images of what is perceived.

15. Causal princple (part of Descarte's trademark argument)

Correct Answer: B) The cause of anything must have at least as much reality as its effect / be as perfect as the effect.

16. A belief can be true or false.

Correct Answer: A) Yes.

17. Foucault says that truth exists in a circular relationship with .....

Correct Answer: D) All of these.

18. What is the origin of the the word Epistemology?

Correct Answer: C) Greek.

19. What was Gettier's examples used to argue about "no false lemmas" ?

Correct Answer: A) Job Interview (Smith and Jones) and Brown in Barcelona.

20. Which subtopic of epistemology emphasizes the role of experience in acquiring knowledge?

Correct Answer: D) Empiricism.

21. Who claimed, "I think, therefore I am" ?

Correct Answer: B) Descartes.

22. According to rationalism, what is the only thing that can produce necessary truth?

Correct Answer: D) Thought.

23. Who wrote about about "Infallibilism" ?

Correct Answer: C) Descartes.

24. What was Plato's main argument FOR the "Tripartite theory of knowledge"

Correct Answer: B) A person only has knowledge if it's justifiable (have good reasons), true (no such thing as false knowledge) and they believe in it.

25. Find the antonym:vague

Correct Answer: C) Clear.

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