Cogito, ergo sum - Quiz
A) I think, therefore I exist B) I think, therefore I am C) I exist, therefore I think D) I am thinking, therefore I exist
A) Mid-sentence B) At the end of his books C) At the beginning of his Meditations D) As a title of his work
A) It was a feature of scholastic Latin B) His publishers added it later C) He invented the comma for this phrase D) It was standard in Classical Latin
A) A university in Paris B) A Jesuit college at La Flèche C) From his travels in Italy D) From Baruch Spinoza
A) I exist, I doubt, I think B) I doubt, I think, I exist C) I think, I exist, I doubt D) I exist, I think, I doubt
A) Cogito, ergo sum B) I think, therefore I am C) I am, I exist D) Ego sum cogitans
A) Doubts reveal a something that doubts B) It is a consensus among scholars C) It is observed through empirical data D) It is proved by deductive logic
A) To find a starting point to reason B) To create a new religion C) To prove the existence of God D) To refute mathematics
A) One must exist to be deceived B) The demon only deceives the senses C) God cannot deceive the mind D) Thinking is independent of existence
A) He has not proved their existence yet B) He claims they are identical to his own C) He proved they exist through logic D) He claims they are illusions
A) Empirical induction B) Deductive proof C) Clarity and self-evidence D) Scientific consensus
A) Aristotle B) Archimedes C) Plato D) Spinoza
A) To replace science with philosophy B) To prove the existence of an evil demon C) To demonstrate the capacity of the clarity and distinctiveness criterion D) To simplify Latin grammar
A) By proving there is no deceiving god B) By the logical deduction of physical objects C) By empirical observations in nature D) By their reliance on immediate clarity and self-evidence
A) A proof of the soul's immortality B) Ego sum cogitans C) A mathematical equation D) A logical syllogism
A) German B) Latin C) Greek D) French
A) Because our senses prove it B) Because we are doubting C) Because the mind is physical D) Because God guarantees it
A) Marin Mersenne B) Pierre Gassendi C) René Descartes D) Antoine Léonard Thomas
A) René Descartes B) Antoine Léonard Thomas C) Marin Mersenne D) Pierre Gassendi
A) 1644 B) 1637 C) 1765 D) 1641
A) Principia Philosophiae B) Discourse de la Méthode C) Inquisitio Veritatis per Lumen Naturale D) Meditationes de Prima Philosophia
A) I doubt, therefore I am B) thinking is occurring C) I am thinking D) I am, therefore I exist
A) Once B) Two C) Thirty D) None
A) It contradicts the work of John Lyons B) Descartes stresses the first person C) The text was written in French D) The Latin verb form is ambiguous
A) More than thirty B) Ten C) Five D) Exactly two
A) Antoine Léonard Thomas B) Peter J. Markie C) Charles Porterfield Krauth D) Ann Banfield
A) Running B) Reading C) Thinking D) Skiing
A) 1872 B) 1765 C) 1982 D) 1988
A) Vladimir Žegarac B) Fumitaka Suzuki C) Simon Blackburn D) John Lyons
A) Heraclitus B) Socrates C) Pythagoras D) Parmenides
A) Aristotle B) Augustine of Hippo C) Plato D) Descartes
A) As a Pythagorean theorem B) As an Aristotelian syllogism C) As a Socratic dialogue D) As a Platonic ideal
A) Gómez Pereira B) Andreas Colvius C) Adi Shankara D) Isaac Beeckman
A) A manifestation of sensory perception B) A physical entity linked to the Trinity C) An immaterial substance with no bodily element D) A mere linguistic construct
A) Gómez Pereira B) Parmenides C) Avicenna D) Adi Shankara
A) Floating Man B) Doubtful Man C) Flying Man D) Thinking Man
A) Augustine of Hippo B) Andreas Colvius C) Gómez Pereira D) Descartes
A) Antoniana Margarita B) Nicomachean Ethics C) Fragment B3 D) De Civitate Dei
A) Søren Kierkegaard B) Bernard Williams C) Friedrich Nietzsche D) Pierre Gassendi
A) Pierre Gassendi B) Søren Kierkegaard C) Bernard Williams D) Friedrich Nietzsche
A) I B) x C) z D) y
A) A purely subjective perspective B) A Cartesian perspective C) A third-person perspective D) A divine perspective
A) Thought B) Logic C) Death D) Action
A) Thought B) Action C) Consciousness D) Death
A) Martin Heidegger B) René Descartes C) John Macmurray D) Bernard Williams
A) Dead B) In dying C) Gravely ill D) Thinking
A) A philosophical system B) The subjective content of the mind C) The act of thinking D) A conclusion about third-personal facts
A) Adaptive Manipulator B) Allied Machine C) Automated Mind D) Advanced Model
A) Cogito virus B) Descartes virus C) Autoreiv virus D) Proxy virus
A) Alfred North Whitehead B) Gorrister C) Veritas Ratio D) David Brent
A) Alfred Ratio B) Descartes Ratio C) Veritas Ratio D) Cogito Ratio
A) The organism B) The substance C) The thinker D) The process
A) Cogitos B) Proxies C) Androids D) Autoreivs
A) Calculations B) Memory loss C) Emotions D) System failures |
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