Directions: Carefully study statements 1-10 Number your answers 1 through 10. Decide whether each statement is true or false, and write the word ``true'' or the word ``false'' in accordance with your decision for each of the following questions. Do not copy the questions itself.
- ___________________________ Epistemology is the study of the historical principles evolving throughout Western Civilization.
- ___________________________ Axiology is the mathematical study of the basis of mathematical systems such as geometry.
- ___________________________ Aesthetics is the discipline concerned with living the good life--living well and doing well in the world.
- ___________________________ The discipline of logic would be considered part of epistemology, since logic is concerned with proofs of what we know.
- ___________________________ Ethics is a subdivision of the field of inquiry termed ``aesthetics.''
- _ __________________________Ontology or the study of being, existence, and reality is the same thing as the field of metaphysics.
- ___________________________ Whether or not the Higgs boson (a massive scalar elementary particle in physics) exists is an ontological question.
- ___________________________ Whether or not a theory of everything can be formulated is an epistemological question.
- ___________________________ Whether of not beauty is an objective or subjective quality of things is a debated question in the field of metaphysics.
- ___________________________ Ethics and axiology make up the philosophical field of aesthetics.
Lee Archie
2010-02-01
