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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. Which of the following best describes Hume's idea of a definition?
(a) Something that is formed from our own ideas.
(b) Something that comes from the universal truth.
(c) Something we have been told as children and have grown to believe.
(d) Something that is trivially true.

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

3. Which of the following is an abstract concept?
(a) A chair.
(b) God.
(c) Man.
(d) Facebook.

4. How does Hume define intuition?
(a) Seeing the future.
(b) Imagining what will happen.
(c) Recalling past events.
(d) Seeing the relation.

5. What does Hume say would happen if you denied the existence of the 19th man of a group of twenty?
(a) The twentieth man would not exist.
(b) None of the men in the group would exist.
(c) There would be much immoral behavior.
(d) People would fall in love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Into what does Hume divide knowledge?

2. Which of the following best defines empiricism?

3. What does imagination do with simple ideas once it has separated them?

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

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

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