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Philosophers
What is a person?
"isms"
Reasoning
Potpourri
100
The name of one utilitarian philosopher.
Who is Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill or David Hume?
100
A computer won this game show.
What is jeopardy?!
100
Dedicating your life to others.
What is altruism?
100
All roses have thorns. This is a rose, therefore it has thorns.
What is deductive reasoning?
100
Knowledge that we know because everybody knows it.
What is common knowledge?
200
He argued that the fact that God knew the future did not rob humanity of its free will.
Who is St. Augustine?
200
A.I.
What is artificial intelligence?
200
The belief that life is meaningless and we can never know anything.
What is nihilism?
200
The door is smashed, the drawers are open and things are missing. Therefore we were robbed.
What is inductive reasoning?
200
What Berkeley believed to be the only real things.
What are ideas?
300
This philosopher is associated with nihilism.
Who is Nietzsche?
300
This group of humans, not recognized as persons, is like those with dementia, in that they have limited communication skills.
What is a fetus?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!! The belief that the meaning to the reader is never what the author intended.
What is deconstructionism?
300
The type of reasoning Sherlock Holmes used.
What is inductive reasoning?
300
Knowledge that can be expressed in a sentence.
What is propositional?
400
This philosopher Saint said that much can be learned through science but some things can only be learned through faith.
Who is Saint Albertus Magnus?
400
Birds, examined in class, that have demonstrated intelligence and problem solving.
What are Ravens/Crows?
400
The idea that "what you see is what you get", that which you see with your senses is exactly what the thing is.
What is common sense realism?
400
Another word for rationalism.
What is anti-foundationalism, indirect, a priori?
400
The knowledge of knowing how to do something.
What is competence?
500
When examining the meaning of life he said that if nothing matters then that fact doesn't matter either.
Who is Thomas Nagel?
500
This type of chimpanzee is highly intelligent and peaceful.
What is a bonobo?
500
The idea that only I am real and everything else is a product of my mind.
What is solipsism?
500
Holding a belief without proof.
What is dogma?
500
The term used to describe someone whose abilities have been enhanced by cyborgization.
What is an orthot?