Epistemology quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   What is the primary role of testimony in acquiring knowledge?

   Answer: Learning from others

   Why: So much of what you know about history, geography or science comes from others, not your own senses.

2. 2 Medium

   What did G. E. Moore appeal to against philosophical skepticism?

   Answer: Common sense

   Why: Moore held up a hand and said here is one, arguing the premises of any sceptical argument are less certain than that.

3. 3 Hard

   What ancient skeptic identified three unsatisfactory ways to justify claims?

   Answer: Agrippa

   Why: Agrippa actually listed five modes, not three: dissent and relativity sit beside the trilemma of assumption, circle and endless regress.

4. 4 Easy

   Why do constructivists claim that knowledge is built rather than found?

   Answer: Human interaction creates meaning

   Why: The claim is not that science is false but that what counts as justified is negotiated between people rather than read off the world.

5. 5 Medium

   Rationalism teaches that knowledge is primarily gained through which human faculty?

   Answer: Reason

   Why: Descartes and Spinoza, two of the three Continental Rationalists, modelled philosophy on the deductive method of geometry.

6. 6 Hard

   What do internalists say a belief's justification depends on?

   Answer: Conscious accessibility

   Why: The slogan is that you ought to be able to tell, by reflection alone, whether your own belief is justified.