GATE Humanities and Social Sciences - Philosophy Practice Quiz

Question 1

The first indubitable certainty Descartes reaches through methodic doubt is expressed as:

Accepted Answer

Cogito, ergo sum (I think, therefore I am)

Question 2

Descartes uses the device of an "evil demon" (malin genie) in order to:

Accepted Answer

Push doubt to its extreme by supposing a deceiver could falsify even simple beliefs

Question 3

The metaphysics of Descartes is a substance dualism between:

Accepted Answer

Res cogitans (thinking substance) and res extensa (extended substance)

Question 4

In which work does Descartes present the Six Meditations including the cogito and proofs of God?

Accepted Answer

Meditations on First Philosophy

Question 5

A defining commitment of rationalism, shared by Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, is that:

Accepted Answer

Some substantive knowledge is innate or attainable by reason independent of sense experience

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