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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The third lens James describes that is used for seeing the world is which of the following?
(a) Meliorism.
(b) Ascetism.
(c) Aestheticism.
(d) Pragmatism.

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

3. What stance does James attribute to being the way out of monism?
(a) Pragmatist stance.
(b) Intelligence stance.
(c) Witness stance.
(d) Determinist stance.

4. What position does James state believes everything is essentially the same?
(a) Pluralism.
(b) Pantheism.
(c) Pragmatism.
(d) Monism.

5. James says that for an instantaneous conversion, it is necessary for a person to know which of the following?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Harmony.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Disharmony.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does James use as an example to explain the significance of substance?

2. Humans react in what way to new information, according to James?

3. James claims that in excess, what can become gullibility?

4. James identifies the difference between those who are saintly and those who are not as which of the following?

5. According to James, 'each' and 'whole' are levels of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Fechner's approach to philosophy.

2. What is the empiricist position?

3. How does James define religion?

4. For a man to experience the divine, what does James insist he must do?

5. What is radical empiricism?

6. What is immanent operation?

7. What are James' thoughts about suicide?

8. What is the monist position?

9. What are the qualities of saintliness which James defines?

10. How does James describe reasoning as a part of empiricism?

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