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Directions: Write in the blanks below the word ``true'' or the word ``false'' in accordance with the truth or falsity of the statement.
- __________________________ Axiology can be defined as the study of the axioms or fundamental presuppositions of mathematics.
- __________________________ Epistemology is the study of the nature, scope, and limits of reality.
- __________________________ Plato's teacher and mentor was Socrates.
- __________________________ One of the charges brought against Socrates is that he is challenging Greek religious beliefs; that is, he investigates things in the heavens and below the earth.
- __________________________ The Socratic Paradox is the basis of the ethics of Socrates.
- __________________________ The Delphic Oracle stated that Socrates makes the weaker reason appear the stronger, and he corrupts the youth of Athens.
- __________________________ Socrates says that he is a gadfly; this means that he annoys the prominent citizens of Athens by showing they do not know what they claim to know.
- __________________________ When convicted, Socrates doesn't plead for his life because he knows he can move away from Athens and change his questioning.
- __________________________ Socrates believes in immortality of the soul because of the permanence of material objects, not ideas.
- __________________________ According to Russell, a chief value of philosophy is its uncertainty and its reduction of dogmatism.
- __________________________ Russell describes the practical person as one who seeks enlargement of self.
- __________________________ Russell believes that science and philosophy have nothing in common.
- __________________________ Knowledge is sought by both philosophy and science, but philosophy seeks the assumptions upon which science is built.
- __________________________ Russell and Plato both believe that choices are entirely justified by their actual consequences in the world.
- __________________________ The chief value of philosophy lies, according to Russell, in the reduction of dogmatism and the inquiry into truth, goodness, and reality.
- __________________________ Because Tolstoy was old and his life was coming to an end, he experienced an arrest of life.
- __________________________ ``The truth'' according to Tolstoy is that art reveals the essence of life.
- __________________________ Tolstoy thinks that only faith can provide a meaning to our lives.
- __________________________ Tolstoy believes advances in science can provide a meaning and an understanding of life that religion can never provide.
- __________________________ Tolstoy defines ``faith'' as ``irrational knowledge.''
- __________________________ Tolstoy states that in this life, only death and taxes are the truth.
- __________________________ Camus implies that the fundamental problem of philosophy is to solve the question of the meaning of life.
- __________________________ Camus states that the world is Absurd; consequently, all our actions are controlled by fate.
- __________________________ Camus' phrase ``the cruel mathematics which command our condition'' implies that the passage of time in our lives is inevitable.
- __________________________ Camus believes that we can find a meaning to life if we impose value on what we do.
- __________________________ The existentialists believe that all human actions, like all natural events, are causally determined and so is subject to the laws of science.
- __________________________ Camus believes that ``what'' we do is not as important as ``what we think of what we do.''
- __________________________ Metaphysics or ontology is the study of the basis of reality.
- __________________________ Ethics is the study of morals-including the concepts of good and right.
- __________________________ Aesthetics is the study of the foundations of physical motion in nature.
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Lee Archie
2004-09-13