DIRECTIONS: Select the best answer to each question. 1. “x = y if x and y have a

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DIRECTIONS: Select the best answer to each question.
1. “x = y if x and y have all the same properties” is known as ____________________________
a. Leibniz’ Law
b. Identity of Indiscernibles
c. Indiscernibility of Identicals
d. Principle of Sufficient Reason

2. “x and y have all the same properties if x = y” is known as ____________________________
a. Leibniz’ Law
b. Identity of Indiscernibles
c. Principle of Sufficient Reason
d. Indiscernibility of identicals

3. The theory which holds that only properties exist is called ___________________
a. Nominalism
b. Platonic Realism
c. Bundle Theory
d. None of the above

4. We’ve used the word ‘simple’ in this course to pick out _______________________
a. Something that’s easy to understand
b. Something that has no parts
c. Something that’s infinitely divisible
d. None of the above

5. Leibniz believed that all monads have __________________
a. Extension
b. Consciousness
c. Appetites
d. B and C

6. A perdurantist is someone who believes that ____________________
a. The world is made of monads
b. Objects have temporal parts
c. Only particulars exist
d. None of the above

7. Which of the following is a time-indexed property?
a. 10” tall
b. Simba-at-T1 is 10” tall.
c. Simba is 10” tall at T1
d. 10”-tall-at-T1

8. One feature of endurantism (that we discussed in class) is _________________
a. Sameness-without-Identity
b. Time-indexed properties
c. A and B
d. None of the above

9. A sufficient reason for P explains _______________________
a. Why P happened
b. Why not-P didn’t happen

c. None of the above

d. A and B

10. A brute fact is something ____________________
a. that has no temporal parts
b. for which there’s no sufficient reason
c. that has more than one sufficient reason
d. that’s analogous to a basic-belief.

11. Leibniz believed that God’s will is brute
a. True
b. False
c. In some cases, but not others.
d. Leibniz thought we can’t know whether or not God’s will is brute.

12. According to Leibniz, this world is _________________________.
a. Made of monads
b. Extended
c. The best of all possible worlds
d. A and C

13. Hume says that our will is free only if ____________________
a. We act from our own desires/motivations
b. Our choices are undetermined
c. The PSR is true.
d. None of the above

14. The theory that says both properties and particulars exist is called ____________________.
a. Nominalism
b. Platonic Realism
c. Bundle-Theory
d. Cartesian Dualism

15. True / False: Monads are physical entities
a. True
b. False

16. On Hume’s view, our idea of necessary connections is formed by __________________
a. Innate ideas
b. Habit
c. Inductive Reasoning
d. B and C

17. ‘x is good’, for Hume, means the same thing as ________________________.
a. ‘x has overall good consequences’
b. ‘x pleases me’
c. ‘x is legal in my society’
d. None of the above

18. A person is blameworthy, according to Hume, if ___________________.
a. His/her action has overall negative consequences
b. S/he doesn’t utilize his/her free will
c. His/her motivations are bad
d. A and C

19. If p is contingently true, then ______________________
a. P is true at some possible worlds
b. P is true at all possible worlds

c. P is false at some possible worlds
d. A and C

20. If p is necessarily true, then _______________________
a. P is true at some possible worlds
b. P is true at all possible worlds
c. P is false at some possible worlds
d. A and C

21. According to Augustine, as we understood him in class, the 2nd-Order-Will is _________________.
a. undetermined
b. determined
c. to stop smoking
d. to have a bad will

22. Compatibilism is the theory that ________________.
a. there can be universal moral truths, even if there are no necessary truths.
b. a person’s 1st Order Will can contradict his/her 2nd Order Will.
c. free will is compatible with libertarianism
d. free will is compatible with determinism

23. On Augustine’s view, _________________ is possible only if there are necessary truths.
a. libertarianism
b. judgment
c. A and B
d. None of the above

24. in On the Free Choice of the Will, Augustine convinces Evodius that the eternal truths are _______________ to our minds.
a. inferior
b. equal
c. superior
d. literally right next

25. Which of the following statements would Augustine say is/are true? (Circle all that apply.)
a. We have free will
b. We do not have free will
c. On our own, we can desire to have a good will.
d. On our own, we can’t desire eternal things.

26. Did Descartes think that animals could feel pain?
a. Yes
b. No
c. It depends on the animal
d. Descartes’ philosophy is bad, and he should feel bad.

27. Which of the following is true about eternal truths?
a. They may have a beginning, but no end.
b. They may have an end, but no beginning.
c. They may have a beginning and end.
d. They have neither beginning, nor end.

28. As we discussed him in class, was Augustine a libertarian, or a compatibilist?
a. Yes
b. Libertarian
c. Compatibilist
d. B and C

Explanation / Answer

Q1. B identity of indiscernibility

Q2. B identityof indiscernibility

Q3. C bundl theory

Q4. A something that's easy to understand

Q5. A Extension

Q6. B objects have temporal parts

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