PSS QUIZ

• Philosophy of the Social Sciences
• WO
• Studiejaar 1

These answers are incorrect because they should highlights the limitations of sensory perception in understanding the specific powers behind natural operations.

These answers are incorrect because they should highlights the limitations of sensory perception in understanding the specific powers behind natural operations. (page 132)

PSS QUIZ

According to Hume, when an event occurs that we are familiar with, we can induce that the effects of that event will be the same as those of similar, past events because…

1. It is intuitively known
2. Previous experiences create knowledge of them.
3. We develop a habit of expecting them, but we can never know them with any exactitude.
4. We develop our phronesis.

What is Hume's opinion on god?

1. Hume asserts that God's existence is irrelevant to human experience.
2. God is essential as the power present in cause and effect relationships, that we cannot detect.
3. Hume asserts that God does not exist.
4. God is so beyond the scope of our experience and therefore we cannot proof it.

Could a person endowed with the strongest faculties of reason and reflection discover anything farther than observing a continual succesion of objects?

1. No, not at first since the particular powers by which all natural operations are performed never appear to the senses.
2. Yes, because reason and reflection can uncover the specific powers behind all natural operations.
3. Yes, because we can intuitively understand the causal relationship between multiple objects/events.
4. No, because reason and reflection are limited to observing a continual succession of objects.

Upon witnessing something that reminds of us a familiar person / place or thing, the vivacity of our feelings towards it are augmented by..

1. The resemblance it has with the memory of that thing.
2. The contiguity / distance of the resembling object to the actual object of our passions.
3. The degree to which we are familiar with the actual object.
4. All of the above

Hume writes that there are two kinds of human reason / inquiry, one of them being Relations of Ideas. Relations of ideas are…

1. Known through one’s sensational experience
2. Known since they lie in the mind of God, who is known to all.
3. Known through the operation of one’s thought and reason.
4. Impossible to be known

Matters of fact are, according to Hume,

1. Impossible to be known for certain.
2. Known through their contiguity in time and / or place with known things.
3. Known because they resemble other ideas.
4. Known through understanding their cause.

Hume chose his particular style of writing because....

1. He was fond of academia.
2. He wanted poeple to take him serious.
3. He felt that philosophy should be consumable by people of all ages.
4. He was not fond of academia and therefore wrote books that the average person could understand.

Ideas are created…

1. Through related sentiments that we can control.
2. Through related sentiments that we can’t control.
3. Directly through our own volition for them to exist.
4. Directly, but we can’t control their apparition.

Which diagnosis did Hume receive from his physician?

1. Laziness of Temper
2. Atheism
3. Disease of the learned
4. The flu

Suppose a billiard ball is rolling along a pool table and collides with another. The momentum of the first ball is transferred and the second ball continues along the table until friction with the table makes it stop. According to Hume, are you capable of knowing the connection between the first rolling ball and the effect it caused once it collided with the second? Why or why not?

References

Hume, D. (1748). An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding. In Oxford University Press eBooks (pp. 134–198). https://doi.org/10.1093/oseo/instance.00032980

Murphy, C. (2017). Practising humility: how philosophy can inform general practice.    

British Journal Of General Practice, 67(665), 561. 

https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp17x693725

Wright, J. P. (2009). Hume’s ’A treatise of human nature’ : an introduction. Cambridge University    

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