1. PHIL 201 EXAM 3
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1) Match the following:
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What justifies a belief is that it coheres with other beliefs.
Doxastic Assumption
The view that I know that no one knows anything.
Unmitigated Skepticism
When mutually supportive propositions add to the positive epistemic status of
each other.
Concurrence
The view that we have a duty to offer evidence for every belief we hold without
exception.
Evidentialism
All knowledge of the world begins in the senses.
Empiricism
A group of theories of justification which holds that one does need to have access
to evidence to be justified or warranted about at least some beliefs; I may not
know why I know, but I can still reasonably say I know.
Externalism
Claims that knowledge comes through the use of reason.
Rationalism
Claims that we can have some knowledge or ordinary things, but not of
metaphysical things.
Metaphysical Skepticism

2. Says that a proposition is true if it corresponds with the facts of reality.
Correspondence Theory of Truth
Says a proposition is true if it is successful in explaining phenomena or in
achieving desired consequences.
PragmaticTheoryofTruth
2) According to classical foundationalism, a belief is considered properly basic if
it is:
3) John Locke affirmed all the following except:
4) Plato believed we possessed innate ideas and retain all of these from birth.
5) According to Alvin Plantinga, Warrant is what turns true belief into knowledge.
6) The Mattrix movies serve as a modern day example of Descartes’ Evil Demon
Hypothysis
7) According to Wood, reliabilism claims that:
8) Which view claims that justification for belief comes from the relationship it
shares to other beliefs?
9) Traditionally, knowledge has been defined as:
10) A belief-disposition is a natural and noninferential cognitive response elicited
by a particular experience.
11) __________________ combined rationalism and empiricism, showing how
both played a role in our understanding
12) Pyrrhonic Skepticism claims that knowledge is possible, but not generally
attainable.
13) SensusDivinitatus gives us perfect ability to know God.
14) Descartes deduced God from the concept of God itself, in order to justify
the idea of the material world.
15) _____________________Is a theory of knowledge which holds that the
grounds of our justified beliefs are evidence that we have conscious access to;
i.e. I know or can know why I believe something to be true.
16) Epistemology is primarily concerned with “Knowledge as Competency”, as
opposed to “Knowledge as Truth Claims”.

3. 17) Which of the following is NOT one of the suggested ways to respond to
skepticism?
18) The principle of defeasibility states that all claims to knowledge are
potentially false, and thus should be avoided.
19) Hume’s category of knowledge known as the “Relations of Ideas” refers to
claims that are:
20) Hume famously questioned the concept of causality, since we cannot
observe the necessary connection between A and B where A supposedly causes
B.
21) MitigatedSkepticsclaim: