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Class 12 Philosophy Chapter 2 Epistemology The Theory Of Knowledge Quiz 4 (25 MCQs)

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1. Which example does Plato use to show that we have innate knowledge?

Correct Answer: B) A slave boy learning geometry.

2. What is qualia?

Correct Answer: D) Private conscious experiences of sensation and perception.

3. A rationalist philosopher would probably agree that people learn to think by having varied experiences

Correct Answer: C) No way.

4. What is the definition of a posteriori knowledge?

Correct Answer: B) Knowledge that can only be acquired from experience of the external world.

5. Locke's secondary qualities

Correct Answer: A) Qualities that we impose on an object:colour, smell, texture, and so on.

6. In the context of justified true belief, which of the following is a key component in addition to belief and truth?

Correct Answer: C) Justification.

7. What does agnosticism say about God's existence? / Apakah yang dikatakan oleh agnostisisme tentang kewujudan Tuhan?

Correct Answer: C) It is impossible to know if God exists / Mustahil untuk mengetahui sama ada Tuhan wujud.

8. What does knowledge from perception mean?

Correct Answer: B) Knowledge that we acquire from our experience of the world.

9. Locke's simple ideas

Correct Answer: A) Ideas that cannot be broken down any further.

10. Which best describes:Knowing a person, or knowing attributes about them-e.g. "I know Jack" .

Correct Answer: A) Acquaintance knowledge.

11. Who is known for laying the foundation for the modern inductive logic and attempting to systemize the scientific method?

Correct Answer: C) Francis Bacon.

12. What is the main purpose of skepticism in epistemology?

Correct Answer: C) To test ideas by using doubt.

13. What is a synthetic statement?

Correct Answer: C) A statement based on sensory experience.

14. Which type of knowledge can easily be transferred from one person to another? (Zagzebski said this)

Correct Answer: C) Propositional Knowledge.

15. Which best describes:Knowing how to do something such as how to drive a car

Correct Answer: B) Ability Knowledge.

16. A large number of people conveying the same news so much so that it is impossible for the news to be a fake.This is:

Correct Answer: B) Mutawatir.

17. Arguments in which the premises make the conclusion likely are .....

Correct Answer: C) Inductive.

18. A priori

Correct Answer: D) Knowledge of propositions that do not require sense experience to be known to be true or false.

19. What was Plato's example used to demonstrate our experience of the realm of the forms?

Correct Answer: B) The Allegory of the Cave.

20. What is knowledge and how does it differ from belief or opinion?

Correct Answer: B) Epistemology.

21. What is the main focus of empiricism in epistemology?

Correct Answer: B) Knowledge derived from sensory experience.

22. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a justified belief under reliabilism?

Correct Answer: A) It must be produced by guesswork.

23. What does dogmatism mean? / Apakah maksud dogmatisme?

Correct Answer: B) Accepting beliefs without question / Menerima kepercayaan tanpa persoalan.

24. Contingent existence means that something exists only in the case of something else existing or being true.

Correct Answer: A) True.

25. In Kuhn's historical relativism, how does the scientific community decide what theories are to be embraced?

Correct Answer: D) It must fit within the current paradigm.

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