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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Part 3, Of Knowledge and Probability.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Hume's second tool of philosophical inquiry?
(a) The knife.
(b) The map.
(c) The fork.
(d) The microscope.

2. What is Hume's first tool of philosophical inquiry?
(a) The knife.
(b) The spoon.
(c) The microscope.
(d) The robin.

3. Hume tells the reader to fix his eye on what kind of spot?
(a) A dirt spot.
(b) A lead spot.
(c) A black spot.
(d) An ink spot.

4. Which of the following best describes Hume's fork principle?
(a) We can either live in right or wrong.
(b) A truth can be split into two.
(c) Life has two roads.
(d) A truth has four parts.

5. 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 proven to come from another idea, it has no meaning.
(c) If no term can be balanced into equal parts, it's worthless.
(d) If no term can be sliced into many parts, it can't be understood by a human mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hume say is limited?

2. What kind of image does Hume say will be presented if one wheels around a burning coal with rapidity?

3. To what does distinguishing between perception and reality often lead?

4. What idea does Hume bring in to distinguish between knowledge and probability?

5. What does Hume claim should not be arrived at instinctively?

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