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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Some Problems of Philosophy Section II (Chapters VIII-Appendix).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position does James state believes everything is essentially the same?
(a) Pantheism.
(b) Pluralism.
(c) Pragmatism.
(d) Monism.

2. What does James attribute to using wholes to explain parts?
(a) Pluralism.
(b) Empiricism.
(c) Rationalism.
(d) Logic.

3. James says that limitations in will cause which of the following?
(a) Attention.
(b) Unintelligence.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Common sense.

4. Why does James say that feelings are important?
(a) They are signs of intelligence.
(b) They are direct percepts of the world.
(c) They are responses to action.
(d) They are signs of consciousness.

5. James says that the second way of looking at "To You" is in which position?
(a) Intellectual.
(b) Logic.
(c) Pluralist.
(d) Pragmatic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does James believe people tend to do with the truth?

2. What is addressed in Chapter III?

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

4. What does James describe as the first virtue of pluralism?

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

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