Question Description
15 questions to Introduction to Philosophy:
6. Philosophical questions are conceptual in nature; __________ deal in probability and
plausibility rather than absolute truth and falsehood.
A. Philosophical uncertainties
B. Philosophical answers
C. Philosophical doubts
D. Philosophical statements
7. A major philosophical concept, ________________, deals with basic human characteristics
and similar traits in other beings like chimpanzees and dolphins.
A. Personhood
B. Selfhood
C. Self-being
D. Primitive self
Unit 1 Examination
Introduction to Philosophy
8. A(n) ________ fallacy involves an argument’s subject matter.
A. Formal
B. Informal
C. Truth
D. False
9. The two parts of an argument are _____.
A. Premises and conclusion
B. Fact and conclusion
C. Premises and falsehoods
D. Facts and truths
12. “A square has four sides” is a necessary and suffi cient condition for defi ning a
square.
A. True
B. False
13. The potions riddle in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is an excellent example of
logical thinking.
A. True
B. False
Unit 1 Examination
14. If someone is a student at Hogwart’s, then he or she is studying witchcraft and wizardry.
Neville Longbottom is a student at Hogwart’s. Therefore, Neville Longbottom is
studying witchcraft and wizardry. This is an excellent example of Modus Ponens, or
the Asserting Rule.
A. True
B. False
15. Analytical thinking is the philosophical application of psychoanalysis.
A. True
B. False
16. Crossing the finish line first in a race in which you competed fairly and without cheating
is a necessary and sufficient condition for you to be the winner.
A. True or B, False
19. B.F. Skinner believes that human freedom is impossible.
A. True
B. False
Unit 1 Examination
20. Freudianism claims that the human personality has neither conscious nor unconscious
dimensions.
A. True
B. False
21. A “Freudian slip” is an example of how the unconscious can determine what we say.
A. True
B. False
23. The theory of free will implies about responsibility that because our actions result
from our own choices, we are fully responsible for them.
A. True
B. Fcalse
24. Aristotle agrees with the following statement: The more we understand people, the
more we know how little responsibility they have for their actions.
A. True
B. False
25. According to Ellis, irrational beliefs prove that determinism is correct.
A. True
B. False