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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Meaning of Truth Section I (Lectures I-VII).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term is defined as the state of consciousness considered subjectively?
(a) Thought.
(b) Cognition.
(c) Representation.
(d) Feeling.

2. How does James describe ineffability?
(a) The inability to express charity.
(b) The inability to express experience.
(c) The inability to express virtue.
(d) The inability to express ascetism.

3. Which of the following does James not identify as a quality of saintliness?
(a) Purity.
(b) Charity.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Strength of the soul.

4. The lecture about Royce adds to lectures on which topic?
(a) Pluralism.
(b) Theism.
(c) Bergson.
(d) Ignorance.

5. For whom is truth an inert static relationship, according to James?
(a) Psychologists.
(b) Intellectualists.
(c) Philosophers.
(d) Religious people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does James call the immediate way of knowing something?

2. The first lens James describes that is used for seeing the world is which of the following?

3. Which phrase does James use to describe common sense?

4. According to James, religion cannot exist on which of the following?

5. What position is described as holding that even in vast fields of sameness, there is still difference?

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