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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Pluralistic Universe Section I (Lectures I-IV).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the concept called where one believes that everything has an opposite that is negated?
(a) Inductive.
(b) Rationalist.
(c) Deductive.
(d) Dialectic.

3. Which phrase does James use to describe common sense?
(a) Thinking pattern.
(b) Stage of development.
(c) Symptom of aging.
(d) Cycle of life.

4. What does James describe as occurring when the whole changes all things contained within it must also change as a singular act?
(a) Immanent operation.
(b) Logical operation.
(c) Inductive reasoning.
(d) Singular operation.

5. What is the first sub-category of spiritualism that James discusses?
(a) Pluralist Atheism.
(b) Polytheism.
(c) Montheism.
(d) Monistic pantheism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Humans react in what way to new information, according to James?

2. What does James say allows Fechner to posit Earth systems based on human systems?

3. What term does James describe as being a mental mode of adaptation to reality?

4. James associates Charles Pierce with what concept?

5. According to James, there are two ways of looking at the whole of the universe. What are these ways?

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