Question & Answers

Question and Answers

Chapter 9

Descartes believed that his universal method of reasoning based on mathematical principles was the result of divine revelation.

True - False

Descartes' philosophy was inspired by a series of dreams.

True - False

Innate ideas are truths that are not derived from observation or experiment.

True - False

Descartes insisted that we reject efforts to understand the world with mathematical precision.

True- False 

A priori ideas are derived from experience.True- False

Descartes argued that the idea of God is acquired from experience.True- False

Descartes was the first philosopher to study the process of thinking itself.

True- False

Descartes applied the Scholastic model to his study of science and philosophy.True- False

Descartes believed that we are born with certain ideas implanted in us by God.

True- False

Descartes reasoned that his ideas of body and mind must be correct, since God allowed him to know clearly and distinctly that he is both.

True- False

Descartes attacked earlier philosophy on the grounds that it _____.

did not demand rational comprehension from the individual intellect

In order to reach his target audience, Descartes wrote in _____.

everyday French

The work of _____ anticipated Descartes' Meditations by five hundred years.

Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali

Descartes' standard of truth rests on _____.

a combination of empirical evidence and divine revelation

Descartes begins his Meditations by seeing if it is possible to _____.doubt everything

Descartes introduces _____ as a device to raise the possibility of ultimate delusion.

the evil genius

Descartes discovers one absolutely un-doubtable truth:

I think, therefore I exist.

18.According to the _____ , the body is a fleshy machine.

Cartesians

_____ is the term for any philosophical position that divides existence into two distinct substances.

Dualism

20. Cartesian dualism generates the _____ problem.

mind-body

Chapter 10

1. The correspondence theory of truth holds that an idea is true if whatever it refers to actually exists.True-False2. David Hume thought that most metaphysical speculations are irrelevant to the lives of ordinary people.True-False3. ...