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

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

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

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

5. Which of the following best defines empiricism?
(a) Our knowledge of the world comes enitirely through experience.
(b) The government should have control over our lives.
(c) Our knowledge of the world comes entirely from our parents.
(d) Our morals are not truly our own thoughts.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From where does a human's substantive knowledge come?

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

4. What does Hume say takes precedence over ideas?

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

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