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Class 12 Philosophy Chapter 2 Epistemology The Theory Of Knowledge Quiz 9 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is reality?

Correct Answer: A) Metaphysics.

2. Realism

Correct Answer: B) What is the object of knowledge?.

3. Sceptisicm

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

4. The researchers collect information about people's lives and then describe and analyze it. This refers to:

Correct Answer: C) Narrative design.

5. What is maya

Correct Answer: B) An illusion where things appear to be present but are not what they seem.

6. Which-ism is this:An approach that assesses the truth of meaning of theories or beliefs in terms of the success of their practical application.

Correct Answer: B) Pragmatism.

7. An argument which is first based on an observation, then considered through theory, to finally be given an infallible paradigm, is called what?

Correct Answer: B) Inductive.

8. The philosophy that states all knowledge must ultimately come from experience

Correct Answer: D) Empiricism.

9. What does Gettier argue about the Tripartite view of knowledge?

Correct Answer: C) That conditions are not jointly sufficient.

10. What is "Innatism" ?

Correct Answer: B) We are born knowing some things.

11. A posteriori knowledge is .....

Correct Answer: A) Knowledge from our experience.

12. Synthetic propositions are .....

Correct Answer: B) Contingently true, based on A Posteriori knowledge.

13. What's the missing blank: ..... is a response to Gettier's No False Lemmas argument and focuses on good justification by a reliable process

Correct Answer: A) Reliabilism.

14. Kantian synthesis of rationalism and empiricism

Correct Answer: B) Knowledge is the result of organizing the information perceived on the basis of inborn cognitive structures, or "categories" .

15. How many of the epistemological questions would skepticists say yes to?

Correct Answer: A) 0.

16. A mathematician does not need to do experiments to gain knowledge. It just requires extensive thought. What philosophy does this reflect?

Correct Answer: A) Rationalism.

17. Contingent truth

Correct Answer: C) An argument whose conclusion is logically entailed by its premises, i.e. if the premises are true, the conclusion cannot be false. i.e. the inference is necessary.

18. The views of Greek philosophers

Correct Answer: C) Knowledge is an apprehension of necessary and universal principles.

19. A biologist goes into the woods to research wolves. She observes them, records their behaviors, and uses this information to draw broad conclusions.

Correct Answer: A) Empiricism.

20. What does virtue epistemology focus on?

Correct Answer: A) Traits of persons or their faculties or psychological processes.

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