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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two cities does Hume use in his example of why it is difficult to form accurate impressions?

2. What does Hume say is the chief exercise of the memory?

3. Hume argues that reason is the slave of what?

4. What does Hume say takes precedence over ideas?

5. Which of the following is another term used for passions?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hume define passions?

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

3. What does Hume say are simple perceptions?

4. How does Hume claim an idea is formed?

5. Why can only our imagination produce belief in external objects?

6. How does Hume divide the different kinds of philosophical relations?

7. What is the microscope principle?

8. Why does Hume reject the idea of an immaterial soul?

9. What is the difference between responsive and productive passions?

10. What is the razor principle?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Summarize each of the three books and answer the following questions.

1. What are the main arguments in each of the three books?

2. How does does each of the three books contribute to the overall argument?

Essay Topic 2

Write an example that clarifies each of Hume's following ideas.

1. Cause and effect.

2. The difference between recalling events in the mind and the imagination.

Essay Topic 3

How does Hume break down morals? Why does Hume think morals are unnatural? What effect do morals have on the way humans think?

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