Exercise (knowledge/skepticism)

INSTRUCTIONS: Please, answer all questions by filling appropriate bubbles on the scantron sheets. Use pencils and the scantrons distributed in class. Exactly one answer to each question is best and thus true. Sign and return this sheet.

PART I: THREE KINDS OF KNOWLEDGE
1. Tim Duncan knows how to play basketball. (that is, he shoots well, has a great post-up game, is a very good rebounder, etc)
A) D knows that basketball is just a game
B) D is acquainted with people who referee basketball games
C) He has a skill of playing basketball
D) None of the above.

2. If Susan knows that her eyes are dark brown, then
A) She believes her eyes are dark brown
B) Her belief that her eyes are dark brown is justified
C) This belief is true
D) All of the above
E) None of the above.

3. If Stef knows Fred Feldman, then
A) Stef knows that Fred Feldman is a philosopher.
B) Stef is acquainted with Fred Feldman
C) Stef has the skill of feldmaning or the ability to feldman
D) All of the above
E) None of the above.

PROPOSITIONAL KNOWLEDGE/SKEPTICISM
4. If Adam believes that he owns a black car, and if he has justification for this belief, then
A) He may fail to know that he owns a black car because it is not clear whether he believes that he owns this car
B) He may still fail to know that he owns a black car because it is not clear whether he has justification for this belief
C) He may still fails to know that he owns a black car because it is not clear whether his belief is true
D) All of the above
E) He must know that he owns a black car.

5. If Brian has a true hunch, and thus forms a belief, that he will soon meet a good friend, then
A) He may fail to know that he will soon meet a good friend because it is not clear whether he believes he will soon meet a good friend
B) He may fail to know ... because it is not clear whether he has justification for his belief
C) He may fail to know ... because it is not clear whether his belief is true
D) All of the above
E) He must know that he owns a black car.

6. If Clyde has justification for the claim that Mary loves him, and indeed Mary does love him, then
A) He may fail to know that Mary loves him because it is not clear whether he believes that she loves him
B) He may fail to know ... because it is not clear whether he has justification for his belief
C) He may fail to know ... because it is not clear whether his belief is true
D) All of the above
E) He must know that he owns a black car.

 7. Gettier -like examples show that
A) knowledge is simply justified true belief
B) knowledge is more than justified true belief; for sometimes someone has a justified true belief yet she does not know
C) neither A nor B

8 In all Gettier-like examples discussed in class the agent does not know because
A) the agent lacks justification
B) he/she reasons through a false belief
C) there is no sufficient connection between evidence and truth (the agent makes a lucky guess)
D) B) and C) 
E) All of the above

9. According to Skepticism about the External World
A) No one ever knows any contingent fact about the external world.
B) No one ever knows any conceptual truth
C) No one ever knows what one is thinking about
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

10. According to the Principle of the Epistemic Primacy of Sense Perception, if someone knows that there is an Eiffel Tower in Paris
A) She must have personally traveled to Paris and experienced the Eiffel Tower
B) She must know someone who traveled to Paris and experienced the Eiffel Tower
C) There is someone who has been to Paris and experienced the Eiffel Tower
D) She may know it by pure reason (e.g., by discovering conceptual relationships between Paris and the Eiffel Tower)
E) None of the above.

11. The claim that there are facts (objects, features) in a given domain of inquiry is the main component of
A)  realism
B) non-realism
C) commonsense
D) all the above

12. According to the following, our minds are like blank paper, void of all characters until experience writes its message upon them.
A) Sextus
B) Locke
C) Kant
D) Stef
E) All of the above

13. According to idealism (ideaism) the objects such as chairs, trees, and human bodies are made of
A) matter
B) some immaterial (mental) "stuff"
C) both A) and B)
D) none of the above

14. The following philosopher was an idealist
A) Sextus Empiricist
B) Locke
C) Berkeley
D) all of the above

15. Empiricists assert that the knowledge is
A) the result of experience
B) innate
C) both A) and B)

16. Rationalists maintain that some knowledge is innate, we are born with this knowledge. Thus, rationalists disagree with
A) empiricists
B) idealists
C) materialists
D) all of the above

17. Berkeley agrees with Locke that the distinction between primary and secondary qualities helps to refute skepticism
A) TRUE
B) FALSE

18. According to Berkeley
A) This piece of paper is made of matter
B) This piece of paper is not made of matter but rather of some ideas and other mental stuff
C) This piece of paper is constantly perceived by someone
D) B) and C)
E) none of the above.

19. The Skeptic about the external could grants that we know
A) conceptual truths
B) some mental facts of which we are directly aware
C) that there are tables and people
D) A) and B)
E) all of the above

PART III: BASIC CONCEPTS
20. Tim Duncan knows how to play basketball. (that is, he shoots well, has a great post-up game, is a very good rebounder, etc)
A) a contingent fact
B) a contingent non-fact
C) a necessary fact
D) a necessary non-fact

21. That the Earth exists and is spherical (round) is
A) a contingent fact
B) a contingent non-fact
C) a necessary fact
D)a necessary non-fact

22. 5 + 7 = 27.
A) a contingent fact/truth
B) a contingent non-fact (falsehood)
C) a necessary fact/truth
D) a necessary non-fact (falsehood)

23 5 + 7 = 12 is
A) a contingent fact
B) a contingent non-fact
C) a necessary fact
D) a necessary non-fact.

24. Our Galaxy exists and is shaped like a gigantic disk
A) contingent fact
B) contingent non-fact
C) necessary fact
D) necessary non-fact

25. God exists and is all-good (assume that this claim is true and use the concept God assumed by a traditional theism and explained in class)
A) a contingent fact
B) a contingent non-fact
C) a necessary fact
D) a necessary non-fact

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