INSTRUCTIONS: Please, answer all questions by filling appropriate bubbles on the scantron sheets (A=true; B=false). Use pencils and the scantrons distributed in class. Exactly one answer to each question is best and thus true. (If you give a nonstandard answer, please explain.) Due Tuesday at the beginning of the class

PART I: 

1. 5 + 7 = 12 is
A) a contingent fact
B) a contingent non-fact
C) a necessary fact
D) a necessary non-fact

2. Tim Duncan knows how to play basketball is.
A) a contingent fact
B) a contingent non-fact
C) a necessary fact
D) a necessary non-fact

3. Our Galaxy exists
A) contingent fact
B) contingent non-fact
C) necessary fact
D) necessary non-fact

4. God (as this concept is defined by traditional theism) exists (assume it's true) is
A) a contingent fact
B) a contingent non-fact
C) a necessary fact
D) a necessary non-fact

5. There are facts (objects, features) in a given domain of inquiry is a version of
A) realism
B) non-realism
C) commonsense
D) non of the above

6. According to idealism (ideaism) the objects in a given domain are made of
A) matter
B) some immaterial (mental) "stuff"
C) both A) and B)
D) none of the above

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

8. Rationalist disagree with
A) empiricists
B) idealists
C) materialists
D) all of the above

9. The following philosopher asserts that 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

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

11. According to Berkeley
A) This piece of paper is made of matter
B) This piece of paper is not made of matter
C) This piece of paper is constantly perceived by someone
D) B) and C)
E) none of the above.

12. Suppose that David knows that Detroit is dirty and deserted. According to the Principle of the Epistemic Primacy of Sense Perception:
A) David must have personally traveled to Detroit and experienced how dirty and deserted it is.
B) David must know someone who traveled to Detroit and experienced how dirty and deserted it is.
C) There is someone who traveled to Detroit and experienced how dirty and deserted it is.
D) David can know it in the same way as he knows that all bachelors are unmarried, that is he can know it by pure reason (e.g., David can discover how dirty and Deserted Detroit is by merely thinking about Detroit, dirt, and the property of being deserted and the relations between Detroit, dirt, and the property of being deserted.
E) None of the above.

13. The following argument is valid:

We'll eat out or we'll see a movie.
We'll not eat out.
Therefore, we will not see a movie.

14 The following argument is valid

All women are good mothers.
All good mothers act morally.
Therefore, all women act morally.

PART II

Describe some contingent thing. In your description mention at least three primary and three secondary qualities (characteristics).

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