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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What modern movement did Locke prefigure in his arguments about philosophical language?
(a) Ontology.
(b) Ordinary language philosophy.
(c) Relativists.
(d) Deconstruction.

2. What would happen if words referred to particular things, in Locke's opinion?
(a) No one would know that classes of things existed.
(b) Everyone would need to be an even larger language for classes of things.
(c) No one would understand each other's vocabulary.
(d) There would have to be a word for each thing.

3. Who is guilty of reification, according to Locke?
(a) Scientists.
(b) Historians.
(c) Materialist philosophers.
(d) Metaphysical philosophers.

4. What are people who do not believe in free will called?
(a) Relativists.
(b) Determinists.
(c) Fatalists.
(d) Ontologists.

5. What did Locke study first?
(a) The origins of understanding.
(b) The mechanisms for measuring understanding.
(c) The weight of understanding.
(d) Differences in animal and human understanding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke describe as an abuse of words?

2. How does Locke characterize perception?

3. What does Locke say about the form of signs and words?

4. What does Locke say we about words that cannot be defined any further?

5. What does Locke say justifies moral principles?

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