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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Part 4, On the Sceptical and Other Systems of Philosophy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what does the first truth in Hume's fork principle deal?
(a) Religious concepts.
(b) Truth in science.
(c) English grammar rules.
(d) True statements in mathematics.

2. How does Hume define demonstration?
(a) Connecting the relation.
(b) Hiding the relation.
(c) Identifying the relation.
(d) Deriving the relation.

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

4. What does Hume say impression does not tell us?
(a) There isn't an internal world.
(b) There isn't an external world.
(c) We are alive only in our minds.
(d) Nothing exists.

5. What two cities does Hume use in his example of why it is difficult to form accurate impressions?
(a) Moscow and Prague.
(b) Glasgow and Liverpool.
(c) New Jerusalem and Paris.
(d) London and Edinborough.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object does Hume say is sufficient enough to give him the idea of extension?

2. What are the two ways in which Hume says one can exist?

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

4. What does Book One cover regarding human nature?

5. What kind of philosophers does Hume claim are confused themselves?

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