Philosophy of Cognition and Epistemology
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What is the term denoting the study of the cognitive process?

  • Epistemology (correct)
  • Metaphysics
  • Ethics
  • Aesthetics

According to Optimists like Hegel, what is the belief about the power of understanding?

  • Understanding is unnecessary
  • Understanding has limited power
  • Understanding is always accurate
  • Understanding can uncover the secrets of the world (correct)

What do Skeptics, including Protagoras, George, Pyrrhon, and Michel Montaigne, question?

  • The existence of the Universe
  • The speed of cognitive progress
  • The power of understanding
  • The intelligibility of the world (correct)

What is meant by the cognitive process being concrete-historical?

<p>Its progress is determined by existing societal structure (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who introduced the term 'epistemology' in 1854?

<p>J. Ferrer (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are key issues in the philosophical analysis of cognition?

<p>Understanding true knowledge and values (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the focus of practical cognition?

<p>Applying known devices to discover new ones (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In what sense is knowledge traditionally understood in the text?

<p>As the abilities, skills, and habits of a person (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the focus of scientific cognition as described in the text?

<p>Studying reality on scientific grounds (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the distinction between practical knowledge and scientific understanding?

<p>Practical knowledge aims to apply known devices to discover new ones (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does Kant recognize significant possibilities for understanding, especially concerning?

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

What is the object of cognition?

<p>Any reality to which cognition is directed (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Huxley introduce, according to the text?

<p>The term agnosticism (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Hume argue events are unpredictable due to, according to the text?

<p>Reliance on emotions, which have limits (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In what sense is 'knowledge' related to 'information' in modern times according to the text?

<p>'Information' is closely related to 'knowledge' as it's the transmission of one object's effect on another through a signal (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the focus of common life cognition as described in the text?

<p>Based on daily life observation, experiences, and communication and empirical in nature (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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