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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. From where does Hume say facts come?

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

3. Which of the following passions does Hume call a bodily feeling?

4. What does Hume say will is instead of a power?

5. In what does Hume say he finds it difficult to put faith?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the microscope principle?

2. Why does Hume think we love the rich and admire only people we know?

3. How does Hume define passions?

4. How does Hume claim an idea is formed?

5. What are Hume's views on causation?

6. Why does Hume think that memory is stronger than imagination?

7. What does Hume say are simple perceptions?

8. What is Hume's fork principle?

9. Why is resemblance so important in terms of relation?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

What are the arguments for and against Hume's treatise? How did society initially react to Hume's ideas? How influential have Hume's ideas been on modern day society?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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