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Directions:  Evaluate the following statements and mark them as "true" or as "false" in accordance with your assessment.

1.  _______________ Russell implies that science and philosophy are exactly the same thing.

2.  _______________ According to Russell, philosophy has few concrete results and science has many concrete results.

3.  _______________ Both philosophy and science aim primarily at knowledge.

4.  _______________ Philosophy seeks to examine the presuppositions or assumptions of science, our beliefs, or, for that matter, any inquiry.

5.  _______________As soon as philosophic inquiry discovers a useful methodology to obtain definite knowledge, the subject is no longer called philosophy but becomes a separate science.

6.  _______________ Many early scientists were at the time considered philosophers.

7.  _______________The only sciences which developed independently of philosophy are mathematics, sociology, and semantics.

8.  _______________ One of the most recent sciences to branch off from philosophy is mathematics.

9.  _______________ Questions which are capable of definite answers are placed in philosophy;   questions which are not capable of definite answers are placed in science.

10.  _______________ Even though philosophy seeks knowledge, what really matters is not the certainty achieved but the uncertainty revealed by the use of reason and argument.

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