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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ariadne's Thread.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Wilson propose to test the benefit of consilience?
(a) In epistemology.
(b) In social sciences and humanities.
(c) In religion.
(d) In the history of knowledge.

2. What did Freud focus on, in his investigation of dreams?
(a) The role of the unconscious.
(b) The role of the self's desire for power.
(c) The role of original traumas.
(d) The role of infant sexual experience.

3. What does science use as proof of a theory?
(a) Hypotheses.
(b) Phenomena witnessed by neutral observers.
(c) Natural laws.
(d) Repeated experiments.

4. Where does the unification of intellectual work have its benefit, in Wilson's account?
(a) In politics.
(b) In philosophy.
(c) In environmental policy.
(d) In the future.

5. How has the postmodern fragmentation of knowledge affected consilience, in Wilson's account??
(a) It has created the conditions for unification.
(b) It has opened new fields.
(c) It has not been useful.
(d) It has generated unprecedented discussions between disciplines.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does science try to integrate, in Wilson's account?

2. The idea that water was the unifying medium for all nature is the center of which philosophical view?

3. What political movement did Condorcet inspire?

4. How can science help us, in Wilson's account?

5. What benefit does Wilson say consilience has?

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