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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 believe people tend to do with the truth?
(a) Conserve it.
(b) Optimize it.
(c) Neglect it.
(d) Spend it.

2. Fechner is the founder of ______________.
(a) Research psychology.
(b) Biology.
(c) Modern philosophy.
(d) Scientific psychology.

3. James says that mystical experience carries a sense of which of the following?
(a) Morality.
(b) Depression.
(c) Authority.
(d) Happiness.

4. According to James, there are two ways of looking at the whole of the universe. What are these ways?
(a) Unity and disunity.
(b) Happiness and unhappiness.
(c) Faithfulness and unfaithfulness.
(d) Love and hate.

5. What term is defined as the state of consciousness considered subjectively?
(a) Cognition.
(b) Feeling.
(c) Representation.
(d) Thought.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of unity does James define as being the relationship of things that seem to tell a story together?

2. In the lectures about the meaning of truth, what does Lecture I relate to?

3. What kind of experiences does James say deliver people from the suffering of duality?

4. Lecture XI discusses which concept?

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

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