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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. 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 the mind.
(c) They are features of people.
(d) They are features of metaphysics.

2. From where does Hume say facts come?
(a) The government.
(b) History.
(c) Experience.
(d) The imagination.

3. By what does Hume say cousins are connected?
(a) Fate.
(b) Family.
(c) Causation.
(d) Christianity.

4. Why does Hume say that neither ideas nor impressions are infinitely divisible?
(a) They are a solid fact.
(b) We would eventually arrive at a number too difficult to perceive.
(c) They can only be divided into four.
(d) It takes away from the fact that they are complex.

5. Hume says every simple impression is attended with what?
(a) A correspondent title.
(b) A correspondent sentence.
(c) A correspondent word.
(d) A correspondent idea.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what two general classes do relations come?

2. Hume say the human mind resolves itself into what distinct kinds ?

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

4. How does Hume define intuition?

5. What is Hume's third tool of philosophical inquiry?

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