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PHIL 101 TEST 2 NEWEST 2025 ACTUAL EXAM
COMPLETE ALL 100 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED
ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+ (BRAND
NEW VERSION!!)
Question: Which of the following is not a central question
pertaining to the existence of God?
ANSWER: Do you believe that God exists
Question: What types of reasons are important for supporting
one's belief in the existence of God?
ANSWER: Justifying
Question: To say that one believes God exists because that's
how one was raised is to give this sort of reason.
ANSWER: Explanatory
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Question: What is the main line of reasoning in the
Cosmological Argument?
ANSWER: The universe must have been caused to exist by
someone or something.
Question: Which sort of justification is empirical? That is, what
term is used to describe justification that depends on sense experience?
ANSWER: A posteriori
Question: "A priori" means
ANSWER: Justified without reference to experience
Question: Which of the following statements is not a priori?
ANSWER: Plants, animals, and minerals exist.
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Question: Which of the following is a central consideration in
the Ontological Argument?
ANSWER: The concept of God itself
Question: Pascal argues that the cost of believing that God exists
even if he doesn't exist is less than the cost of not believing that God exists if he does.
ANSWER: True
Question: The paradox of the stone (i.e., could God create a
stone he could not lift?) concerns this alleged property of God.
ANSWER: Omnipotence
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Question: There is no obvious conflict between God's being
omniscient and people having free will.
ANSWER: False
Question: The problem of evil reveals a conflict between God's
omnipotence and his omnibenevolence.
ANSWER: True
Question: Timmons and Shoemaker distinguish between these
two types of responses to the problem of evil.