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

2. How does Hume's idea of cause and effect differ from the conventional point of view that states they are features of the world?

3. Which of the following can cause either pride or humility?

4. Which of the following best defines empiricism?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What argument did Malezieu propose in terms of space and time?

2. How does Hume claim an idea is formed?

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

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

5. What is the razor principle?

6. Define skepticism.

7. What are Dr. Clarke's views on cause and effect?

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

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

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

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

What does Hume think of metaphysics and religion and why does he hold that opinion? In what way could Hume's ideas be seen as an argument against religious belief?

Essay Topic 3

What are philosophical relations? How does Hume use philosophical relations to help us understand how our mind works?

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