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Open Question: Descartes Quiz! Help please! (:?

In meditation 2, which statement does Descartes find which cannot be doubted?

Choose one answer.
a. I exist
b. I do not exist
c. I have a body
d. I am about to finish this quiz
Question 2
Marks: 1
Descartes concludes that his body can be no part of himself in Meditation II because

Choose one answer.
a. Bodies were proven to exist in Meditation I, not Meditation II.
b. He knows that he exists, but does not yet know if there are any bodies in existence, thus he cannot be his body.
c. He does not yet know that he exists, but he does know that bodies exist, thus he cannot be his body.
d. Because he knows that God exists, he concludes that he must be his body.
Question 3
Marks: 1
Property Dualism is the position that

Choose one answer.
a. It is irrational to fear death.
b. The mind is an entity that is distinct from the body.
c. Mental properties are distinct from and cannot be reduced to physical properties.
d. Mental properties are identical to physical properties.
Question 4
Marks: 1
Descartes’ philosophical project in the Meditations is to

Choose one answer.
a. Find a belief that is absolutely certain in order to provide a foundation for science
b. Show that, at the end of the Meditations, nothing can be known at all, nothing is certain.
c. Show that all knowledge must be based on sense experience.
d. Show that the very pursuit of knowledge is a misguided endeavor.
Question 5
Marks: 1
How does the Dream Argument establish the dubitability of our beliefs about the external world?

Choose one answer.
a. If we cannot know that we are not dreaming, then we know that we ARE dreaming.
b. If we can know anything about the external world, we can be certain that we are dreaming.
c. If we cannot know that we are not dreaming, then we cannot be certain that our beliefs about the external world are true.
d. It is impossible that we are always dreaming, therefore there must be an external world.
Question 6
Marks: 1
Which of the following is one of the philosophical methods Descartes use in the Meditations?

Choose one answer.
a. Mysticism
b. Foundationalism
c. Vodoo
d. The Scientific Method
Question 7
Marks: 1
What are the two substances that Descartes divides the universe into?

Choose one answer.
a. Large and Small
b. Minds and Thoughts
c. Minds and Bodies
d. Bodies and Shapes
Question 8
Marks: 1
How does Descartes define justification for a belief?

Choose one answer.
a. A belief is justified only if it is more likely to be true than false.
b. The concept of justification does not exist according to Descartes.
c. A belief is justified only if it based on sense experience.
d. A belief is justified only if it is absolutely certain.
Question 9
Marks: 1
When Descartes defines the “I” which he is now certain exists, he defends the ‘bundle theory of the self’.

Answer: True False
Question 10
Marks: 1
The problem of interactionism facing Descartes is that, according to his own definitions of Mind and Body, it is impossible to explain how minds and bodies interact with each other. Since they clearly do, this is a problem for his theory.

Answer: True False

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