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  • 1. In phenomenology, how is the world defined?
A) As an independent mental construct.
B) As a purely mathematical space.
C) In terms of horizons of experiences.
D) As a collection of physical atoms.
  • 2. What does the term 'horizon' refer to in phenomenology?
A) The absolute limit of the universe.
B) Co-given objects in the periphery.
C) The scientific study of stars.
D) The center of one's attention.
  • 3. How is the 'world' characterized in phenomenology?
A) As a static collection of facts.
B) As a small isolated point of focus.
C) As the horizon of all horizons.
D) As the totality of mental ideas only.
  • 4. Which types of relations are incorporated into the phenomenological world?
A) Purely random associations.
B) Only spatial coordinates.
C) Social status and political power.
D) Indication-relations and means-end-relations.
  • 5. In philosophy of mind, what is the world commonly contrasted with?
A) The soul.
B) The divine.
C) The mind.
D) The body.
  • 6. What is the 'gap' in philosophy of mind described as needing to be overcome?
A) The gap between past and future.
B) The gap between dreams and reality.
C) The gap between mind and world.
D) The gap between humans and animals.
  • 7. According to realism, what is the relationship between the world and the mind?
A) The world is created by the mind.
B) The world is an illusion of the mind.
C) The mind and world are identical.
D) The world is distinct and independent from the mind.
  • 8. What does Immanuel Kant's transcendental idealism posit about the world?
A) The spatiotemporal structure is imposed by the mind.
B) The world is a divine creation independent of human mind.
C) The world exists entirely without mind interaction.
D) The world has no structure at all.
  • 9. What does Berkeley's subjective idealism hold?
A) The world is a result of evolutionary biology.
B) The world is a collection of physical objects only.
C) The world is a purely material entity.
D) The world consists of nothing but minds and ideas.
  • 10. What is the position of classical theism regarding God and the world?
A) God is wholly distinct from the world.
B) God and the world are identical.
C) The world creates God.
D) God does not exist.
  • 11. How do deists view the relationship between God and the world?
A) God is dependent on the world.
B) God created the world but has no subsequent involvement.
C) God and the world are the same thing.
D) God actively guides and maintains the world.
  • 12. What is the core belief of pantheism regarding God and the world?
A) God and the world are identical.
B) God created the world and left it.
C) God is outside the world.
D) The world is a distraction from God.
  • 13. How is panentheism defined in relation to God and the world?
A) God is indifferent to the world.
B) God and the world are interrelated and depend on each other.
C) God and the world are completely separate.
D) God and the world are exactly the same thing.
  • 14. Why does the world depend on God in classical theism?
A) The world is an illusion of perception.
B) The world is a social construct.
C) The world is a fragment of God's mind.
D) God created and conserves it.
  • 15. In phenomenology, how are objects in the periphery usually experienced?
A) As the main focus of attention.
B) With absolute precision.
C) In a vague, indeterminate manner.
D) As completely nonexistent.
  • 16. What is the study of the origin or creation of the world called?
A) Cosmogony
B) Eschatology
C) Phenomenology
D) Modality
  • 17. What is a comprehensive representation of the world and our place in it called?
A) A cosmogony
B) A worldview
C) A modality
D) A religion
  • 18. The Latin word 'mundus' is a loan translation of which Greek word?
A) Cosmos
B) Midgard
C) Werold
D) Bios
  • 19. What is the meaning of the Latin word 'mundus'?
A) Man's age
B) Orderly chaos
C) Divine sphere
D) Clean, elegant
  • 20. What is the term used to describe a world that lacks internal structure?
A) Substance
B) Blobject
C) Totality
D) Plurality
  • 21. Which theory claims that only one thing exists in a certain sense?
A) Horizon
B) Pluralism
C) Monism
D) Spacetime
  • 22. What is the denial of monism called?
A) Atomism
B) Pluralism
C) Simplicity
D) Unification
  • 23. Which view holds that while other objects exist, they do not have the most fundamental form of existence?
A) Existence monism
B) Substance monism
C) Priority monism
D) Pluralism
  • 24. According to the theory of relativity, what are space and time considered?
A) Illusionary constructs of the human mind
B) A single four-dimensional manifold
C) Two distinct and separate dimensions
D) Static, unchanging foundations of reality
  • 25. What metric in special relativity includes both spatial and temporal components?
A) The Gaussian curvature
B) The Minkowski metric
C) The Newtonian constant
D) The Euclidean metric
  • 26. Who famously conceived possible worlds as concrete entities?
A) David Lewis
B) Hillary Clinton
C) Albert Einstein
D) Isaac Newton
  • 27. Which scholar described scientific fields as occupying different worlds?
A) Thomas Kuhn
B) Martin Heidegger
C) Ludwig Wittgenstein
D) Bas van Fraassen
  • 28. In Plato's theory, what characterizes the sensible world?
A) The realm of unity and sameness
B) Changing physical things we can interact with
C) Eternal and changeless forms
D) Independent existence of beauty
  • 29. What do the prisoners in Plato's allegory of the cave mistake for real things?
A) Shadows
B) The philosopher's wisdom
C) The perfect forms
D) The light outside the cave
  • 30. How can Fraassen's approach be applied to Goodman's arguments?
A) To disprove the concept of personal domains
B) To replace scientific history with philosophy
C) To bolster arguments about multiple worlds
D) To unify the sensible and intelligible worlds
  • 31. In the phrase 'the Roman world', what does 'world' refer to?
A) The entire planet earth
B) A historic era
C) The world of music
D) A physical domain of objects
  • 32. What constitutes the intelligible world according to Plato?
A) Physical shadows of real objects
B) Invisible, eternal, changeless forms
C) The collective facts of the universe
D) Changing sensory perceptions
  • 33. What term does Eugen Fink use to describe the distinction between the world and inner-worldly things?
A) The cosmological difference
B) The spatial gap
C) The ontological divide
D) The worldly contradiction
  • 34. What example does Goodman use to illustrate incompatible truths?
A) The earth moving versus the earth at rest
B) Truth versus falsehood
C) Gravity versus electromagnetism
D) Past versus future
  • 35. What does mythological cosmology use to represent the center of the world?
A) Jiva
B) Prakriti
C) Maya
D) Axis mundi
  • 36. How many parts comprise reality in Samkhya philosophy?
A) 2
B) 1
C) 23
D) 3
  • 37. In Samkhya philosophy, what does purusha represent?
A) A sense-impression
B) A world of matter
C) Individual conscious self
D) The ultimate illusion
  • 38. How many principles or elements of reality make up prakriti?
A) 23
B) 1
C) 2
D) 10
  • 39. In Samkhya, how does purusha relate to prakriti?
A) Causal interaction
B) Creation
C) Observation
D) Merging
  • 40. What is the name of the monist school within Vedanta?
A) Samkhya
B) Jiva
C) Advaita Vedanta
D) Tattva
  • 41. What term does Advaita Vedanta use for the world's illusion?
A) Prakriti
B) Maya
C) Purusha
D) Tattva
  • 42. In Advaita Vedanta, what are separate experiencing selves called?
A) Atmans
B) Prakritis
C) Jivas
D) Tattvas
  • 43. What does Advaita Vedanta consider the most fundamental level of reality?
A) Brahman
B) Prakriti
C) Tattva
D) Maya
  • 44. According to Advaita Vedanta, what is the all-encompassing self?
A) Jiva
B) Prakriti
C) Atman
D) Purusha
  • 45. What is the source of the illusion of the world according to Advaita Vedanta?
A) Cause and effect
B) Ignorance
C) Knowledge of Brahman
D) Matter
  • 46. Who characterized the Contemptus mundi view as a 'pastoral of fear'?
A) A Mandaean priest
B) The Pope
C) Jean Delumeau
D) An unnamed philosopher
  • 47. What is the term for the world in Islam?
A) Ayar
B) Orbis
C) Dunya
D) Tibil
  • 48. The Islamic term 'dunya' is derived from a root word meaning what?
A) Judgment
B) Far
C) Near
D) Spirit
  • 49. In Mandaean cosmology, what is the earthly realm called?
A) Dunya
B) Alma d-nhūra
C) Ayar
D) Tibil
  • 50. What separates the world in Mandaean cosmology from the World of Light and World of Darkness?
A) Aether
B) Dunya
C) The flesh
D) The devil
  • 51. What do worldviews offer in addition to theoretical matters?
A) A definition of the flesh
B) A way to hide from God
C) A list of sins
D) Practical orientation
  • 52. Which beings are mentioned as needing to represent their environment to navigate it?
A) All living things
B) Higher animals
C) Only humans
D) Only religious figures
  • 53. What is the World of Light known as in Mandaeism?
A) Tibil
B) Alma d-nhūra
C) Ayar
D) Alma d-hšuka
  • 54. Which philosopher discussed the concept of multiple possible worlds?
A) Immanuel Kant
B) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
C) Nelson Goodman
D) Isaac Newton
  • 55. What is the dominant scientific theory regarding the origin of the universe?
A) Big Bang theory
B) Cosmic egg theory
C) Many-worlds interpretation
D) Steady state theory
  • 56. Approximately how many years ago did the initial singularity occur?
A) 15.5 billion years ago
B) 13.8 billion years ago
C) 5 billion years ago
D) 10 billion years ago
  • 57. What is the Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) associated with?
A) Biology
B) Quantum mechanics
C) Ancient mythology
D) Physical eschatology
  • 58. What is the proposed event where the universe collapses back into a singularity?
A) Big Crunch
B) Quantum branching
C) Big Bang
D) Cosmic cooling
  • 59. What followed the initial singularity to allow the formation of particles?
A) A cosmic egg rupture
B) An expansion
C) A transition to another dimension
D) A contraction
  • 60. What is the primary viewpoint used in world history?
A) National
B) Microscopic
C) Local
D) Global
  • 61. When did the Industrial Revolution start?
A) 1760 CE
B) 1500 CE
C) 200 BCE
D) 10,000 BCE
  • 62. Whose theories are associated with the Axial Age paradigm?
A) Modern industrial economists
B) Neolithic farmers
C) The Big History theorists
D) Karl Jaspers
  • 63. Which region was dominant before 500 BCE according to the civilisations paradigm?
A) African
B) Eurasian
C) Western
D) Middle Eastern
  • 64. Since when has there been Western dominance?
A) 1500 CE
B) 800 BCE
C) 1760 CE
D) 200 BCE
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