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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 is the following is the best definition of the razor principle?
(a) If no term can be proven to come from another idea, it has no meaning.
(b) If no term can be balanced into equal parts, it's worthless.
(c) If no term can be imagined by the mind, it can never be fact.
(d) If no term can be sliced into many parts, it can't be understood by a human mind.

2. What does Hume say is stronger than imagination?
(a) Love.
(b) Reality.
(c) Passions.
(d) Memory.

3. What does Hume identify as the second philosophical relation?
(a) Identity.
(b) Resemblance.
(c) Space and time.
(d) Quality.

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

5. What is Hume's third tool of philosophical inquiry?
(a) The spoon.
(b) The map.
(c) The fork.
(d) The knife.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the system used to prove the existence of God?

3. What kind of image does Hume say will be presented if one wheels around a burning coal with rapidity?

4. To what does distinguishing between perception and reality often lead?

5. With what does the first truth in Hume's fork principle deal?

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