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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What claim is Locke attacking in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?
(a) The claim that people can merge compassion and reason.
(b) The claim to use pure reason in thinking.
(c) The claim that people can introspect into understanding.
(d) The claim that people know the world solely through the senses.

2. What does Locke use an example to illustrate mode?
(a) Space.
(b) Science.
(c) Water.
(d) Time.

3. What do we have when a word can no longer be defined, according to Locke?
(a) Simple ideas.
(b) Experience.
(c) The essence of an idea.
(d) Visions.

4. What modern movement did Locke prefigure in his arguments about philosophical language?
(a) Deconstruction.
(b) Ontology.
(c) Ordinary language philosophy.
(d) Relativists.

5. What happens when you strip away all the details of a thing, in Locke's account?
(a) You possess the thing as an idea.
(b) You have the category of the thing.
(c) You know the design of the thing.
(d) You cease to see the thing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the contemporary name for Locke's field of inquiry?

2. How does Locke describe the work principles do?

3. What does Locke say perception creates?

4. What standard would an idea have to meet to be considered innate?

5. What does Locke say we about words that cannot be defined any further?

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