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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Part 4, On the Sceptical and Other Systems of Philosophy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is the following is the best definition of the razor principle?
(a) If no term can be imagined by the mind, it can never be fact.
(b) If no term can be balanced into equal parts, it's worthless.
(c) If no term can be sliced into many parts, it can't be understood by a human mind.
(d) If no term can be proven to come from another idea, it has no meaning.

2. What does Hume believe humans generate instead of observing causes?
(a) Beliefs about causes.
(b) Judgements about causes.
(c) Sympathy about causes.
(d) Morals about causes.

3. Why does Hume think the immaterial soul does not exist?
(a) There is no God and soul is connected to Him.
(b) We have no sensory impression of it.
(c) It has been mathematically proven that it doesn't exist.
(d) It is not divisable.

4. What does Hume say takes precedence over ideas?
(a) Impressions.
(b) Reason.
(c) Passions.
(d) Words.

5. Hume says impressions are divided into what?
(a) Pride and passions.
(b) Love and hate.
(c) Ideas and words.
(d) Sensation and reflexion.

Short Answer Questions

1. On which of the following systems does Part Four mainly concentrate?

2. Which of the following best describes Hume's idea of a definition?

3. What does Hume say is the only thing he finds when he looks inside himself?

4. Which of the following was also a British empiricist?

5. By what does Hume say cousins are connected?

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