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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Hume think the immaterial soul does not exist?
(a) It is not divisable.
(b) We have no sensory impression of it.
(c) There is no God and soul is connected to Him.
(d) It has been mathematically proven that it doesn't exist.

3. On which of the following systems does Part Four mainly concentrate?
(a) Empiricism.
(b) Innate ideas.
(c) Skepticism.
(d) Metaphysics.

4. Why does Hume say that neither ideas nor impressions are infinitely divisible?
(a) We would eventually arrive at a number too difficult to perceive.
(b) They can only be divided into four.
(c) It takes away from the fact that they are complex.
(d) They are a solid fact.

5. What does Hume say is limited?
(a) The capacity to feel love.
(b) The capacity of the mind.
(c) Social morals.
(d) Family life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hume say would happen if you denied the existence of the 19th man of a group of twenty?

2. What does Hume claim is a fictitious denomination?

3. Hume says complex ideas are divided into what?

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

5. What does Hume say impressions can't tell us?

Short Essay Questions

1. In which two senses is the word relation commonly used?

2. What is the razor principle?

3. How does Hume claim the mind perceives space?

4. Of what does Hume claim a substance is made up?

5. In what way does Hume say the mind can be dishonest?

6. Why does Hume think humility and pride are similar?

7. What is contiguity within the context of cause and effect?

8. What is the conventional view of cause and effect?

9. What is the difference between reflexion and sensation impressions?

10. How does Hume define passions?

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