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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does James claim his philosophy requires from followers?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Stoutness.
(d) Faith.

2. James says that other theorists originate from what type of experience?
(a) Intelligent experience.
(b) Limited experience.
(c) Personal experience.
(d) Broad experience.

3. James holds that activity is evidenced by which of the following?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Time.
(c) Change.
(d) History.

4. Humans react in what way to new information, according to James?
(a) They are angry at new information.
(b) They are accepting of new information.
(c) They are comforted by new information.
(d) They are wary of new information.

5. Critics of pragmatism assert that pragmatism is a revision of which stance?
(a) Theism.
(b) Rationalism.
(c) Positivism.
(d) Pessimism.

Short Answer Questions

1. James says that mystical experience carries a sense of which of the following?

2. What kind of unity does James describe as being things that are like each other?

3. James says that the field of consciousness is a center fringed by which of the following?

4. James believes that people will first act out of _____________.

5. What term is defined as the state of consciousness considered subjectively?

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