________ developed the method conjecture and refutation.
1) Thomas Kuhn
2) Paul Feyerabend
3) Carl Hempel
4) John Stuart Mill
5) Karl Popper
According to the view, scientific theories are literally true or false.
1) realist
2) instrumentalist
3) conceptual relativist
4) mathematical
5) All of the above.
According to the theory, truth is a property of a related group of constituent statements. 1) coherence
2) correspondence
3) scientific
4) pragmatic
5) propositional
In the mock courtroom drama, the prosecution presents a theory of truth. 1) correspondence
2) coherence
3) legal
4) pragmatic
5) scientific
The search for an ideal language that is unambiguous is associated with 1) E. D. Hirach
2) Wilhelm Dilthey
3) Ludwig Wittgenstein
4) Hans Gadamer
5) Thomas Aquinas
Knowing something requires . 1) believing it
2) evidence or justification
3) it to be true
4) All of the above
5) A and B only
Descartes applied his method of doubt to ________. 1) his own existence
2) the goodness of God
3) mathematical operations
4) sensation
5) everything
Difficulties for the correspondence theory of truth include . 1) false propositions may fit well with other false propositions (and even some true ones)
2) there is no way to get beneath the level of sense experience to verify the truth of one’s claims.
3) conceptual difficulties regarding “facts”
4) All of the above
5) B and C only
Gettier examples show . 1) knowledge sometimes depends on chance
2) knowledge is just true belief
3) knowledge is something more than warranted true belief
4) knowledge is impossible
5) knowledge is warranted true belief
Locke’s secondary qualities include ________. 1) weight, shape, and size
2) Size, shape, and color
3) color, texture, and smell
4) texture, shape, and weight
5) smell, shape, and weight
The virtue of relativism is that it 1) is inclusionary.
2) allows for tolerance.
3) is democratic.
4) holds that no one has a monopoly on truth.
5) All of the above.
According to Hume, ________. 1) we cannot think of anything we have not experienced
2) there is no rational basis for believing in the existence of an external world
3) there is no rational basis for believing in the existence of God
4) All of the above
5) B and C only
According to John Locke, ________ is founded in experience. 1) all knowledge
2) all knowledge except knowledge of God
3) all knowledge except mathematical knowledge
4) only a little knowledge
5) no knowledge
According to the view, scientific truth is discovered. 1) realist
2) instrumentalist
3) conceptual relativist
4) mathematical
5) All of the above.
Knowledge that depends on experience and is stated in an empirically verifiable fashion is ________. 1) a priori
2) a posteriori
3) prima facie
4) analytic
5) A and D only
According to the view, scientific theories are “true” only in the sense that they enable us accurately to predict what will happen. 1) realist
2) instrumentalist
3) conceptual relativist
4) mathematical
5) All of the above.
________ is said to have wrought a Copernican revolution is knowledge. 1) George Berkeley
2) Immanuel Kant
3) Rene Descartes
4) David Hume
5) John Locke
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