Test Your Knowledge: Epistemology

Question 1

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What is the branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of knowledge?

Epistemology

Ethics

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Aesthetics

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Metaphysics

Question 2

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Which philosopher is commonly referred to as the father of modern epistemology?

René Descartes

Plato

Aristotle

Socrates

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Deductive reasoning

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Subjective knowledge

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Rationalism

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Skepticism

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Pragmatism

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Positivism

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Sense perception

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David Hume

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John Locke

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Bertrand Russell

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Metaphysics

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Empiricism

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Utilitarianism

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Existentialism

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Confirmation bias

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Appeal to Authority

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Begging the Question

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Immanuel Kant

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Question 3

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What is the term for knowledge that is justified, true, and believed?

Propositional knowledge

Intuition

Question 4

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Which theory of knowledge claims that knowledge is based on sense experience?

Empiricism

Question 5

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What is the term for the view that knowledge is impossible in some areas?

Skepticism

Idealism

Realism

Question 6

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According to Plato, what is the highest form of knowledge?

Knowledge of the Forms

Opinion

Intuition

Question 7

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Who developed the 'Gettier problem' to challenge the traditional definition of knowledge?

Edmund Gettier

Question 8

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What is the term for the study of justified belief?

Epistemology

Ethics

Logic

Question 9

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Which theory of knowledge asserts that knowledge is based on innate ideas?

Rationalism

Question 10

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What is the term for the fallacy of assuming that a proposition is true because many people believe it?

Argumentum ad Populum

Question 11

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Who famously declared 'I think, therefore I am' as a foundation for knowledge?

René Descartes