Multiple Choice Quiz


1	Which of the following is an example of a priori knowledge?
		A)	All bachelors are unmarried males.
		B)	All bachelors are unmarried females.
		C)	Some bachelors are lonely.
		D)	No bachelors are lonely.


2	Which of the following is an example of propositional knowledge?
		A)	I know how to play tennis.
		B)	I know that Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher.
		C)	I know the dean.
		D)	I know that Plato was an ancient Greek dancing instructor who had no interest in philosophy.


3	What is the name of the epistemological theory that states that reason or the intellect is the primary source of our fundamental knowledge about reality?
		A)	skepticism
		B)	constructivism
		C)	rationalism
		D)	empiricism


4	With which of the following statements would a Kantian constructivist agree?
		A)	We do have knowledge.
		B)	Knowledge is not passively received from experience.
		C)	We can know reality only as it appears to us after it has been filtered and processed by our minds.
		D)	All of the above


5	With which of the claims below would an epistemological relativist disagree?
		A)	There's no universal, objective knowledge of reality.
		B)	All knowledge is relative to either the individual or his or her culture.
		C)	We do have knowledge.
		D)	None of the above. She'd agree with all of them.

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