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23. In Aristotle's view, our senses have the potential to take on the form of the things they are able to sense. Likewise, he proposes that the mind can

 

A) take on the form of other minds

B) take on physical form of things that are sensed

C) take on the form of whatever is thinkable

D) none of the above

 

24. Motion can be sensed by sight, hearing, touch, and perhaps even smell. For this season, Aristotle reefers to motion as a

 

A) a psychic harmony

B) an incidental object of sense

C) a special object of sense

D) a common sensible

 

25. According to Aristotle, motion is human beings results from

 

A) desire and aversion

B) nutrition and desire

C) appetite and mind

D) mind alone

 

26. Descartes's awareness that his senses often deceive him led him to adopt the epistemological method of

 

A) rationalism

B) empiricism

C) both A and B

D) neither A nor B

 

27.  Descartes's radical methodological doubt is

 

A) his belief that he can never know the truth

B) an experiment that leads him into a dead end

C) a strategy to help him learn if there is anything that cannot be doubted

D) an attempt to prove that nothing is what it seems

 

28. What assumption does Descartes make in order to enforce his radical methodological doubt?

 

A) he assumes that his head is made of clay, and a person with a clay head can't know anything for sure

B) he assumes that he is being deceived by a malignant demon

C) he assumes that his dreams are more real than his waking thoughts

D) all of the above

 

29. What is the first insight that causes Descartes to begin to lift his radical methodological doubt?

 

A) he realizes that his head is not a gourd

B) he realizes that God is more powerful than any malignant demon he could imagine

C) he realizes that he cannot doubt that he exists

D) he realizes that other people are starting to think he's crazy

 

30. After he has had the insight that begins to lift his radical methodological doubt, how does Descartes view himself?

 

A) the same as he did before he began doubting

B) as having both a mind and a body

C) as a thinking thing

D) as a godlike being

 

31. The view that nothing exists outside one's own thoughts is called

 

A) existentialism

B) essentialism

C) intellectualism

D) solipsism

 

32. According to Descartes,  a thinking thing is

 

A) a thing that is necessarily deceived

B) a thing that doubts will, understands, affirms, denies, imagines, and perceives

C) a rational animal

D) a thing that cannot be deceived

 

33. Descartes's is able to lift his doubt about senses experience and the existence of corporeal bodies with

 

A) the realization that solipsism is logically contradictory

B) his proof of the existence of God

C) the insight that God cannot be a deceiver

D) B and C