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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 the title of Book one, Part Three?
(a) Morals of the World.
(b) Injustice Versus Justice.
(c) Of Knowledge and Probability.
(d) Of Space and Time.

2. The second truth in Hume's fork principle deals with what?
(a) Morals.
(b) Matters of fact.
(c) Judgements.
(d) Matters of principle.

3. What does Hume claim should not be arrived at instinctively?
(a) Matters of fact.
(b) Matters of science.
(c) Matters of love.
(d) Matters of religion.

4. Hume says impressions are divided into what?
(a) Love and hate.
(b) Sensation and reflexion.
(c) Ideas and words.
(d) Pride and passions.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Hume says everyone can feel the difference between what?

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

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

4. What does Hume identify as the second philosophical relation?

5. Which of the following best describes Hume's idea of a definition?

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