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INTRO TO THE PHILOSOPHY TO
THE HUMAN PERSON
NAME: SCORE:
FIRST QUARTER EXAMINATION

SECTION: ICT / GAS - 11 DATE: Teacher: CHRISTIAN MARK A. AYALA

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I. MATCHING TYPE: (15 POINTS)

Direction: Match the descriptors given in column A with the word/s given in column B. Write the
letter of the correct answer. No erasure.
A. B.

____1. Empirical truth A. the quality or state of being true

____2. Rational truth B. arrived at through deductive reasoning
____3. Universal truth C. established by sense experience
____4. Subjective truth D. truths are true in virtue of meaning alone
____5. Private truth E. is not true in all possible situations
____6. Objective truth F. arrived at through inductive reasoning
____7. Necessary truth G. acknowledge to be true only by some people
____8. Public truth H. independent on the preferences of a person
____9. Contingent truth I. directly known only by the person
____10. Analytical truth J. extends our knowledge
____11. Synthetic truth K. established by means of reason
____12. Relative truth L. be known directly by everyone
____13. Certain truth M. dependent on the preferences of a person
____14. Probable truth N. acknowledge to be true by everyone
____15. Truth O. is a proposition that could not possibly have
Been false
II. COMPLETING THE TABLE (25 POINTS)
Direction: Classify these philosophies. Put the following into their appropriate boxes of
classification.

Metaphysics Platonism Marxism French Philosophy Contemporary Philosophy

Renaissance Philosophy German Philosophy Feminism Cartesianism Ethics

Aesthetics Epicureanism Mediaval Philosophy Existentialism Chinese Philosophy

Ancient Philosophy Hermeneutics Japanese Philosophy Thomism Epistemology

Logic Confucianism Greek Philosophy phenomenology Modern Philosophy

Thematic Types Positional Types Methodological Regional Types Historical Types

Types
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III. IDENTIFICATION. (60 POINTS)

DIRECTION: Identify the word/s being described on the following statements. No Erasures.

A. Term in Philosophy

____________________1. Under this classification are the kinds of philosophy that are
distinguished from one another according to the topic of the issues being addressed?
____________________2. Under this classification are the kinds of philosophies that are
distinguished from one another according to the historical period in which philosophizing
occurred?
____________________3. Under this classification are the kinds of philosophy that are
distinguished from one another according to the solution that is being proposed for a certain issue.
____________________4. Under this classification are kinds of philosophy that are distinguished
from one another according to the method used to resolve certain.
____________________5. Under this classification are the kinds of philosophies that are
distinguished from one another according to the geographical location in which philosophizing
transpires or flourishes.
____________________6. From particular instances to a general principle or law; based upon
actual observation or upon experimental data.
____________________7. From a general law to a particular instance; valid independently of
observation.
____________________8. Theory proposes that a proposition is true if it corresponds to the facts.
____________________9. Two statement are consistent if they are both true at the same time
and do not contradict each other.
____________________10. Holds (roughly) that a proposition is true if it is useful to believe.
____________________11. A basic ability to perceive, understand, and judge things that are
shared by (common to) nearly all people without need for debate.
____________________12. Based on or characterized by the methods and principles of science.
____________________13. Relating or devoted to the study of the fundamental nature of
knowledge, reality and existence.
____________________14. As reality is found in many things, in different conditions that when
analyzed in its relation to the parts, may reveal the truth.
____________________15. To be filled with curiosity or doubt, an event inexplicable by the laws
of nature; a miracle.
____________________16. . The knowledge of all things through their ultimate causes, acquired
through the use of reason”
____________________17. This is the ability to apply that knowledge to given situations.
____________________18. This is merely knowing, learning or understanding facts as they
pertain to certain situations.
____________________19. “Through their ultimate causes”; seeking the deepest explanations
regarding the existence and nature of beings.
____________________20. The study of asking questions about the essence and existence of a
being.

A. People in Philosophy

_____________________1. First person to name himself an philosopher or lover of wisdom.

_____________________2. One of the pioneers of the Dutch Golden Age
_____________________3. First person to explain the world and universe outside mythological
concepts
_____________________4. Father of Modern Western Philosophy
____________________ 5. He believed that the world originated from the fire element
_____________________6. Known for his Socratic Method
_____________________7. “The soul is immortal, even the physical ceased to exist”
_____________________8. On his treatise, Peri Psyche, the soul is divided into three types and
each according to each living being
_____________________ 9. Combined Christian doctrine with Platonic ideology
_____________________10. “Believed that truth is to be accepted no matter where it is found”
“Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful
adventure!”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World