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Capas, Tarlac
S.Y. 2019-2020
Name:___________________________________________________________ Score:____________
Section:___________________________ July ___, 2019
I. True or False
1. To say that philosophy encourages the adoption of a b) Act of philosophizing
questioning attitude means that philosophic thinking c) Act of interpreting
encourages people to deny the existence of God or d) A and b only
traditional moral beliefs.
2. In philosophy the purpose of rational self-examination 3. A thing is either is or is not.
is to develop arguments that correct or support beliefs
in ways that could be persuasive even to people with a) Principle of Identity
different backgrounds. b) Principle of Non – contradiction
3. Though philosophy is defined as the pursuit of c) Principle of Insufficient Reason
wisdom, it does not investigate what it means to ask d) Principle of Excluded Middle
questions in the first place.
4. As the pursuit of wisdom, philosophy raises questions 4. The following are the methods in philosophy except:
about almost everything except what it means to
question in the first place. a) Philosophy as Search for truth
5. Because philosophy requires that we question our b) Philosophy as Speculation
beliefs, it cannot provide reasons why one set of c) Philosophy as Critical Thinking
beliefs should be preferred over another. d) Philosophy as Reflective Inquiry
6. One of the primary aims of philosophy is to see how
our beliefs compare with those of others who can and 5. Questioning is an example of philosophizing.
do raise objections against those beliefs.
7. Philosophy attempts to answer questions such as a) any kind of question is philosophical
"Why do we exist?" by examining what it means to b) first statement is true and second is false
ask such questions and to evaluate whether proposed c) both statements are true
answers to such questions are justified. d) first statement is false and second is true
8. Philosophical questions are generally more
concerned with identifying how beliefs differ among 6. It refers to criticize, judge or to analyze.
persons or cultures than with how those different
beliefs can be justified. a) Critical Thinking
9. By giving us a sense of purpose and moral value, b) Reflective Inquiry
myth indicates our place in nature and explains in c) Philosophical Inquiry
general why things are the way they are. d) Speculative Thinking
10. The point of the Socratic method is to determine the
truth of a belief by means of dialectical exchange. 7. Its value is not measured by its ability of arriving at
11. Socrates's comment that "the unexamined life is not definitive answers enabling a person to widen his
worth living" is an example of his ironic technique of perspectives to avoid dogmatism.
saying something that means just the opposite.
12. In the Socratic method of enquiry, one asks questions a) Philosophy
aimed at discovering the nature, essence, or b) Science
fundamental principles of the topic under c) Metaphysics
consideration. d) Act of Philosophizing
13. Socratic ignorance is the same as complete
skepticism because Socrates admits he knows 8. Engaging in is contemplation, a reflective activity
nothing, not even whether his method of enquiry is where you renounce who you are, your beliefs, and
appropriate. your values.
14. Like the social sciences, philosophy discovers truths
by identifying what people in fact believe instead of a) Philosophy
judging whether those beliefs are justified. b) Science
15. To say that philosophy is a "second order" discipline c) Metaphysics
means that it investigates the presuppositions, criteria, d) Act of Philosophizing
and methods assumed by other disciplines.
9. It is the first act of the intellect wherein by the acts of
II. Multiple Choice our senses we mentally grasp a thing without affirming
1. This ability is inherent among human beings. or denying anything about it.
2. It is the person’s way of making sense of all the things 10. This study enables us to think carefully and clearly
around him that he does not understand. about important issues.
14. The social sciences like psychology, sociology, and a) from the moment we are born we know what things
economics ask questions about how people think and are in the world in terms of ideas that we get through
act, while philosophy is the study of: our senses.
b) since we are born with senses (that is, our senses are
a) how people with different beliefs or backgrounds innate), we can know things about the sensible world
disagree with one another. with certainty as long as we rely on the senses alone.
b) what beliefs mean and whether people with different c) our knowledge of the world is not really of the sensible
beliefs are justified in having them. world itself but of the world grasped mathematically
c) the reasons why philosophic questions never have and ideally.
better or worse answers. d) since our absolutely certain knowledge of things
d) questions that can be answered better by appealing to cannot be based on the changing things in sensible
scientific experiments. experience, it must merely be triggered by sensible
experience.
15. According to Socrates, an unexamined life is not
worth living; and it certainly could not be a virtuous life. 19. In Plato's idealism, the unchanging Ideas or "Forms"
Why not? in terms of which sensible objects both exist and are
known must transcend that is, exist beyond the
a) Because if someone did not know how to act changing realm of appearances; because if Forms
virtuously, he or she would still be considered virtuous changed, then:
by others who also did not know the principles for
good living. a) the only things in the sensible world that we could
b) Because since Socrates was a philosopher, he of ever experience would be concepts.
course thought that people who examined their lives b) the sensible realm (in contrast to the intelligible realm)
philosophically were more virtuous than those who did would consist only of copies of real things.
not. c) nothing in the experienced world could be or be
identified as one determinate thing or another.
d) the sensible world would consist of unchanging
Forms.
T F
1. OO
2. OO
3. OO
4. OO
5. OO
6. OO
7. OO
8. OO
9. OO
10. OO
11. OO
12. OO
13. OO
14. OO
15. OO
A BCD
1. O O O O
2. O O O O
3. O O O O
4. O O O O
5. O O O O
6. O O O O
7. O O O O
8. O O O O
9. O O O O
10. O O O O
11. O O O O
12. O O O O
13. O O O O
14. O O O O
15. O O O O
16. O O O O
17. O O O O
18. O O O O
19. O O O O
20. O O O O