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PHIL 101 TEST 3 UD ROGERS NEWEST 2025
ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE ALL 200
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY
GRADED A+ (BRAND NEW VERSION!! )
Two big problems with Cartesian Dualism - ANSWER-1. How can two completely different kinds of things, the material body and the immaterial mind, interact casually?
- Doesn't interaction require some point of contact?
Descartes says mind and body meet at the ___ ___. - ANSWER- Pineal Gland (which is physical)
Mind/body Debate is Ongoing. There is no present consensus on how to deal with the "problem of _____." - ANSWER- consciousness
Empiricist def. - ANSWER-all our ideas start with experience
According to Locke, before experience the mind is a tabula rasa, or a __ __. - ANSWER-blank slate 1 / 4
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John Locke thinks there are no ____ ideas. - ANSWER-innate (unlike descartes and the idea of god)
What we actually have direct cognitive access to (according to Aristotle and Aquinas) when you observe something what you experience is the ___ ___ ___. - ANSWER-extra mental object
extra-mental - ANSWER-outside the mind
intra-mental - ANSWER-in the mind
Locke will say that what we experience are the ___ in our ___ ____. - ANSWER-ideas, own minds
the ideas in our own minds are caused by and copy... - ANSWER-the things int he real world.
Locke says ideas come from __ and ___. - ANSWER-sensation, reflection
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sensation - ANSWER-sense impressions (i.e. color)
relfection - ANSWER-the mind's thinking about its own operations
two kinds of ideas: - ANSWER-simple and compelx
simple ideas (characteristics) - ANSWER-single, unified
example of simple ideas - ANSWER-- senses (pink, cold)
- reflection (surprise, fear)
Complex ideas - ANSWER-compunded of several simple ideas
complex ideas are put together ... - ANSWER-activley by the mind.
the mind has not innate ___, but instead, innate ____. - ANSWER-ideas, abilities
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To produce complex ideas, the mind takes the simple ideas and...
- ANSWER-- joins them
- compares them
- abstracts from them
abstraction (in current context) - ANSWER-Mind picks out essential characteristics that define a thing. (Otherwise couldn't have knowledge of kinds, like the catness of the cat.)
two types of qualities: - ANSWER-primary and secondary
quality def. - ANSWER-the power in the thing to produce an idea in us.
Primary qualities (characteristics) - ANSWER-- Produce ideas in us that really correspond to the way things are in themselves.
- Can be measured and described in mathematical terms.
- Are objective. They produce the same ideas in all of us.
Secondary Qualities produce ideas in us which... - ANSWER-- Do not reflect the way things really are.
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