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Philosophy Quiz

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Philosophy Quiz

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Question 1:

What is the theory of Intentionality?

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	The greatest amount of happiness for the greatest amount of people.
	Motivation and intention are always the same within coherent moral frameworks
	Consciousness is always consciousness of something.

Question 2:

Who originally wrote the parable about the invisible gardener and who uses the parable to describe the theory of falsification?

	Daniel Dennet and John Searle
	Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre
	John Locke and Thomas Hobbes
	John Wisdom and Anthony Flew

Question 3:

Who wrote The Virtue of Selfishness?

Question 4:

What was the reply Saint Thomas Aquinas gave towards the ontological Argument for the existence of God?

	Existence is not a necessary attribute of perfection
	Existence is a necessary attribute of perfection
	Conceptual existence requires actual existence
	Conceptual existence does not require actual existence

Question 5:

What is Epiphenomenalism?

	Mind is matter and is therefore a function of body
	Mind interacts with body but body never interacts with mind
	Mind and body do not interact
	Body interacts with mind but mind never interacts with body

Question 6:

What is Philosophy as in Philo sophia?

Question 7:

Everyone who lives in Nova Scotia is a Canadian, I live in New Brunswick, therefore, I'm not a Canadian. What is the Logical Fallacy?

Question 8:

What according to Heidegger is the Ontic?

	Being
	Das man
	Existentiell
	That which is concerned only with entities

Question 9:

In one word, how is Sartre's notion of consciousness explained?

Question 10:

Thesis, Synthesis, and Antithesis are most commonly associated with what philosopher?

	David Hume
	Thomas Hobbes
	John Hick
	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

This Quiz has been designed by Jeremy Henderson.