Empiricist Philosophers: Hume, Locke, Berkeley

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Who is considered to have had the greatest influence on contemporary analytic philosophy?

  • Immanuel Kant
  • John Locke
  • David Hume (correct)
  • George Berkeley

According to Hume, what are the two categories into which he divides our mental representations?

  • Impressions and ideas (correct)
  • Consciousness and unconsciousness
  • Facts and opinions
  • Perceptions and illusions

What is the view that all of our knowledge is ultimately acquired through sense experience called?

  • Skepticism
  • Empiricism (correct)
  • Pragmatism
  • Rationalism

Which movement in the twentieth century is heavily indebted to Hume's Empiricism?

<p>Logical Positivism (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to Hume, what distinguishes impressions from ideas in our experience?

<p>Their vividness (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which philosopher briefly considered alongside Locke and Berkeley but focused on more closely?

<p>David Hume (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to the passage, what are memories considered to be?

<p>Faint copies of impressions (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the passage suggest about the imagination?

<p>It can formulate new ideas from old ones and aid in understanding (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a priori reasoning, as mentioned in the passage?

<p>Reasoning independent of experience (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to the passage, what does a priori reasoning reveal?

<p>Logical relations between ideas only (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does Hume's Empiricism lead to, according to the passage?

<p>Skepticism about many things (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does Hume aim to delineate, as mentioned in the passage?

<p>The limits of human knowledge and understanding (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to the passage, what does our ability to reason about matters of fact depend entirely on?

<p>A posteriori reasoning (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is Hume skeptical about, as mentioned in the passage?

<p>Objective moral truths (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to the passage, what does the imagination guide by associating relations like resemblance, contiguity, and cause and effect?

<p>Formulating new ideas from old ones (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the imagination's role in understanding, as per the passage?

<p>It aids in understanding when we reason well (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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