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Class 12 Philosophy Chapter 2 Epistemology The Theory Of Knowledge Quiz 5 (25 MCQs)

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1. What is knowledge of things as they really exist?

Correct Answer: A) Objective truth.

2. Find the synonym:to aid

Correct Answer: B) To help.

3. Who wrote "The Allegory of the Cave" ?

Correct Answer: A) Plato.

4. If I claim that everyone has the capacity to learn, which philosophy does this reflect?

Correct Answer: A) Rationalism.

5. It is the method that is carried out to test a hypothesis looking through data collection and statistical analysis:

Correct Answer: B) Quantitative method.

6. Rationalism

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

7. What is the main focus of epistemology?

Correct Answer: A) The study of knowledge.

8. Does God exist, and if so, can we prove it?

Correct Answer: A) Metaphysics.

9. Epistemology is:

Correct Answer: A) The theory of knowledge.

10. Which theory of truth says that something is true if it is useful in real life? / Teori kebenaran manakah yang menyatakan bahawa sesuatu itu benar jika ia berguna dalam kehidupan sebenar?

Correct Answer: C) Pragmatic theory / Teori pragmatik.

11. What is a priori

Correct Answer: B) Knowledge that precedes sense data, derived from our ability to reason. is independent from experience.

12. Phenomenal principle

Correct Answer: B) When we perceive something as F, then there is something that is F. This is important for the indirect realist argument that we perceive sense-data not an object directly.

13. Which theory leaves a very limited form of propositional knowledge?

Correct Answer: A) Infallibilism.

14. If someone claims that there is no possible way a man can truly understand what it feels like to be pregnant, which philosophy does this reflect?

Correct Answer: C) Empiricism.

15. Who is the main philosopher in skepticism?

Correct Answer: C) Rene Descartes.

16. Empiricism is a branch of philosophy which says that knowledge comes from .....

Correct Answer: A) Our senses.

17. Which of the following is an example of using human senses to gain knowledge?

Correct Answer: B) Understanding that fire is hot by feeling the heat from a flame.

18. According to reliabilism, is knowledge of the reliability of a process necessary for a belief to be justified?

Correct Answer: C) No, the belief can be justified without the agent knowing its reliability.

19. Evolutionary epistemology

Correct Answer: C) Knowledge is built by subjects in such a way as to maximally contribute to their adaptation to the existing conditions.

20. What is a priori knowledge?

Correct Answer: B) Knowledge that you don't need proof of in order to know.

21. Solispsism

Correct Answer: A) The view that the only thing I can be certain of the existence of is my own mind.

22. What example did Leibniz give to describe the innate nature of our knowledge?

Correct Answer: A) A block of marble.

23. Which fits:If something is infallible, it cannot be wrong-not just that the individual feels certain, the proposition itself has to be certain.

Correct Answer: A) Infallibilism.

24. Who wrote about "No False Lemmas" ?

Correct Answer: B) Gettier.

25. What is JTB short for?

Correct Answer: A) Justified true belief.

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