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Logic and Reasoning is a foundational course that introduces students to the principles of correct thinking, structured analysis, and argumentation. The course covers the basics of formal logic, including propositions, deductive and inductive reasoning, syllogisms, logical fallacies, and symbolic logic. Students learn how to evaluate arguments, construct sound reasoning, and identify flaws in everyday and academic discourse. Through exercises and discussions, the course fosters critical thinking and analytic skills essential for a wide range of academic disciplines and real-world problem-solving.

Recommended Textbook Philosophy A Text with Readings 12th Edition by Manuel Velasquez

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Chapter 1: The Nature of Philosophy

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Q1) Karma means literally

A) Action

B) Movement

C) Rightness

D) Fate

Answer: A

Q2) What does philosophy literally mean?

A) love of knowledge

B) love of nature

C) love of wisdom

D) love of life

Answer: C

Q3) The belief that there is just one God is

A) Pantheism

B) Agnosticism

C) Monotheism

D) Heresy

Answer: C

Q4) ____________________ means "the study of knowledge".

Answer: Epistemology

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Chapter 2: Human Nature

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Q1) J.J.C.Smart argued that states of consciousness are identical with states of the brain.

A)True

B)False

Answer: True

Q2) ____________________ is the view that we should explain mental states in terms of perceptual inputs and behavioral outputs.

Answer: Functionalism

Q3) The philosophical view that human beings act only out of self-interest is called A) natural selection

B) psychological egoism

C) altruism

D) existentialism

Answer: B

Q4) Bad faith,according to Jean-Paul Sartre,is deceiving ourselves by pretending we are free.

A)True

B)False

Answer: False

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Chapter 3: Reality and Being

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Q1) Who was also known as the Lokyata?

A) The Buddhists

B) The Hindus

C) The Charvakas

D) The Augustinians

Answer: C

Q2) The attribution of human thoughts and emotions onto the nonhuman universe is the fallacy of

A) equivocation

B) composition

C) anthropomorphism

D) wishful thinking

Answer: C

Q3) The view that whatever I perceive is merely one of my perceptions or a collection of them is known as

A) Subjective idealism

B) Objective idealism

C) Subjective materialism

D) Objective materialism

Answer: A

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Chapter 4: Philosophy, Religion, and God

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Q1) Kierkegaard's distinction between the objective and the subjective thinker is essentially a distinction between

A) Passion and prudence

B) Reason and faith

C) Idealism and materialism

D) Sense and sensibilia

Q2) What aspect of our nature did James say we should rely on when faced with living,forced,and momentous decisions?

A) Prudential

B) Rational

C) Spiritual

D) Passional

Q3) Dembski argued that anything with "specified complexity" has to be produced by an intelligent being.

A)True

B)False

Q4) Do you believe that religion should be reason-based,faith-based,or experience-based? In answering this question take care both to justify your view,and also to explain what the differences between these approaches are.

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Chapter 5: The Sources of Knowledge

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Q1) According to Locke's analysis,a primary quality of an apple might be

A) its red color.

B) its roundness.

C) its smoothness.

D) its smell.

Q2) Innate ideas are ideas that

A) are acquired through experience.

B) based on an individual's cultural traditions.

C) can never be known to be true.

D) the mind possesses from birth.

Q3) The critical realists rejected Locke's epistemology.

A)True

B)False

Q4) What philosopher argued that hallucinations,dreams and other illusions give rise to errors that we "sublate" when we see that they are contradicted by other things our senses show us in the world around us?

A) G. W. F. Hegel

B) Rene Descartes

C) Shankara

D) John Locke

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Chapter 6: Truth

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Q1) According to the ____ theory of truth a statement is true if it is useful to believe.

A) pragmatic

B) coherence

C) foundationalist

D) correspondence

Q2) A basic belief is one that does not need to be justified by other beliefs.

A)True

B)False

Q3) Rorty is a pragmatist about truth.

A)True

B)False

Q4) How many kinds of particles and forces are recognized in the standard theory of matter?

A) Three kinds of particles, four kinds of forces

B) Four kinds of forces, three kinds of particles

C) Three kinds of particles, three kinds of forces

D) Four kinds of forces, four kinds of forces

Q5) The view that truth is an agreement between a proposition and some facts in the world is the ____________________ theory of truth.

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Chapter 7: Ethics

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Q1) Aristotle argued that (true) ____________________ is based on two people's mutual recognition of the goodness of the other.

Q2) Aristotle endorsed:

A) Deontological ethics

B) Virtue ethics

C) Consequentialist ethics

D) Divine command ethics

Q3) Carol Gilligan criticized the model of stages of moral development developed by ____________________.

Q4) The view that there is only one correct morality is

A) Ethical absolutism

B) Ethical egoism

C) Ethical relativism

D) Ethical moralism

Q5) Donald Levy believes that sexual acts that cannot result in reproduction are wrong.

A)True

B)False

Q6) John Finnis endorses ____________________ ____________________ ethics.

Q7) Bentham developed a(n)____________________ calculus.

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Chapter 8: Social and Political Philosophy

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Q1) Who is being quoted in this passage? "Benefits and burdens are distributed justly when society allows every individual the freedom to do what he chooses to do for himself or for others,the freedom to keep what he makes for himself or what others choose to give him,and the freedom to keep what he has or give it to whomever he chooses."

A) John Rawls

B) Karl Marx

C) John Stuart Mill

D) Robert Nozick

Q2) Hegel believed that the state was ____________________ ____________________ than the individual.

Q3) Which of the following philosophers argued that a law is nothing more than a command issued by a ruler,backed by threats of punishment and maintained by a habit of obedience?

A) Martin Luther King, Jr.

B) John Austin

C) Thomas Aquinas

D) John Stuart Mill

Q4) Leviathan was written by ____________________.

Q5) Mill's central concern in On Liberty is the freedom of the ____________________.

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Chapter 9: Postscript: The Meaning of Life

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Q1) Sartre was

A) A theist

B) An agnostic

C) An atheist

D) A monotheist

Q2) One proponent of the theistic response to the question of whether life has meaning is

A) Sartre

B) Heidegger

C) Aquinas

D) Aristotle

Q3) Do you believe that there are limits on subjective meaning? Are there certain activities that are objectively pointless,even if someone values them highly? If you believe that there are such limits on subjective meaning,explain how we can determine them.If you believe that there are not,would you say that a person who was delusional could have a meaningful life?

Q4) Schopenhauer believed that everything passes away.

A)True

B)False

Q5) For Marx,the perfect future world would be a(n)____________________ society.

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