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Class 12 Philosophy Chapter 2 Epistemology The Theory Of Knowledge Quiz 3 (25 MCQs)

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1. What is subjective idealism?

Correct Answer: A) Things only exist when they are perceived, the existence of anything is dependent on perception.

2. What is fallibilism?

Correct Answer: A) The idea that all knowledge is tentative and subject to revision.

3. Doubting whether knowledge is possible is called .....

Correct Answer: A) Skepticism.

4. Inference to the best explanation

Correct Answer: C) An abductive or inductive argument where the conclusion presents the 'best explanation' for why the premises are true.

5. What is the perfect world that our world is a shadow of?

Correct Answer: A) The world of Forms.

6. What does metaphysics study?/ Apakah yang dikaji dalam metafizik?

Correct Answer: B) The nature of reality and existence / Sifat realiti dan kewujudan.

7. What is cash value?

Correct Answer: A) The practical payoff of beliefs.

8. A Priori knowledge is .....

Correct Answer: B) Knowledge from reason.

9. What is knowledge based on a subject's perception or experience?

Correct Answer: B) Subjective truth.

10. What is "Empiricism" ?

Correct Answer: A) We aquire knowledge via experience.

11. The quantitative investigation includes the following except:

Correct Answer: D) Etnography.

12. What was Gettier's main argument AGAINST the "Tripartite theory of knowledge"

Correct Answer: A) Justification, Truth and Belief could all be achieved through luck-this does not mean it is knowledge.

13. Which best describes "reliabilism" ?

Correct Answer: C) Agents must use a reliable method of justification.

14. What is ontology? / Apakah ontologi?

Correct Answer: D) The study of numbers / Kajian tentang nombor.

15. Which of these seems to exclude children from being able to gain propositional knowledge?

Correct Answer: B) The tripartite definition.

16. What are Hume's impressions?

Correct Answer: A) Sensory data.

17. Do minds/souls exist, or are humans' simply complex physical objects?

Correct Answer: A) Metaphysics.

18. Inferences are statements that are clearly marked out in the argument and definitely true.

Correct Answer: B) False.

19. What does "begging the question" mean?

Correct Answer: C) When an argument assumes that its conclusion is already correct in order to make its initial point.

20. What is the knowledge that is built into the structure of our minds?

Correct Answer: A) A priori knowledge.

21. To say that a statement is "consistent" with another is to suggest that they both support or help each other with the same argument.

Correct Answer: A) True.

22. According to Leibniz, what type of knowledge is innate?

Correct Answer: A) Necessary truths.

23. Criticism

Correct Answer: C) Limits to and the possibility of achieving certain Knowledge.

24. Relational properties

Correct Answer: B) Properties of an object that emerge in relation to the observer (e.g. the coin looks elliptical).

25. What is the meaning of life?

Correct Answer: A) Metaphysics.

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