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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. What does James attribute to using parts to explain wholes?
(a) Pragmatism.
(b) Empiricism.
(c) Rationalism.
(d) Monism.

2. Who says that concepts freeze movement?
(a) James.
(b) Royce.
(c) Bergson.
(d) Hegel.

3. What position does James describe as being based on facts and pessimism?
(a) Monist.
(b) Pluralist.
(c) Empiricist.
(d) Rationalist.

4. Who wrote the poem "To You"?
(a) Henry James.
(b) Henry David Thoreau.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) Walt Whitman.

5. Who believed that inclusive forms of consciousness are partly generated by less inclusive forms?
(a) James.
(b) Wordsworth.
(c) Hegel.
(d) Fechner.

Short Answer Questions

1. In excess, what does James believe devoutness becomes?

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

3. Which definition is most close to the definition of healthy-mindedness?

4. What viewpoint does James believe tends to retreat and accommodate?

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

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