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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 microscope.
(b) The fork.
(c) The knife.
(d) The map.

2. Hume says everyone can feel the difference between what?
(a) Images and words.
(b) Women and men.
(c) Feeling and thinking.
(d) Impressions and ideas.

3. From where does a human's substantive knowledge come?
(a) Human passion.
(b) Human senses.
(c) Society.
(d) Religion.

4. How does Hume's idea of cause and effect differ from the conventional point of view that states they are features of the world?
(a) They are features of luck.
(b) They are features of people.
(c) They are features of the mind.
(d) They are features of metaphysics.

5. What does Hume say could be the condition of a man who is insensitive to time?
(a) Asleep.
(b) In the middle of a seizure.
(c) Dead.
(d) In a coma.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is an abstract concept?

2. The second truth in Hume's fork principle deals with what?

3. Which is the following is the best definition of the razor principle?

4. What does Hume use his razor theory to devalue?

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

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