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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Pluralistic Universe Section II (Lectures V-Appendix C).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does James describe Josiah Royce's approach?
(a) Empirical.
(b) Reasonable.
(c) Instinctual.
(d) Deductive.

2. What does James believe to be the prevalence of one set of ideas?
(a) Action.
(b) Experience.
(c) Convention.
(d) Infinite.

3. James suggests the naturalist approach consists of living __________.
(a) Frugally.
(b) Positively.
(c) Negatively.
(d) Simply.

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

5. James believes the salvation approach relies on what kind of experience?
(a) Divine.
(b) Depressing.
(c) Solitude.
(d) Happy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the concept called where one believes that everything has an opposite that is negated?

3. What position does James describe as being based on facts and pessimism?

4. In Lecture VI, what does James relate to pragmatism?

5. What position does James attribute to being the 'each-form'?

(see the answer key)

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