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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Some Problems of Philosophy Section II (Chapters VIII-Appendix).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lecture XI discusses which concept?
(a) Absolute.
(b) Rationalism.
(c) Logic.
(d) Criticism.

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

3. What does James call the immediate way of knowing something?
(a) Intuitive.
(b) Reasonable.
(c) Representational.
(d) Perceptional.

4. What does James say about motion, change, and activity?
(a) They are unique to one another.
(b) They are all the same.
(c) They often stop moving forward.
(d) They are always growing.

5. What adjective does James use to address precepts?
(a) Discrete.
(b) Continuous.
(c) Plural.
(d) Fulfilling.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which phrase does James use to describe common sense?

2. What does James describe as occurring when the whole changes all things contained within it must also change as a singular act?

3. James relates that the truth has ____________ consequences.

4. How does James describe Josiah Royce's approach?

5. In the lectures about the meaning of truth, what does Lecture VIII critique?

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