Second Long Exam

Introduction to the Philosophy of the Human Person

Name: ___________________________________________ Score: ___________________
Year/Section: _____________________________________ Date: ____________________

Test I. Choose the best answer from the below choices. Write only the letter of your answer in the space
provided before the number.
a. Ad Hominem b. Ad Misericordiam c. Allegory d. Aporia
e. Coherence f. Correspondence g. Dicto Simpliciter h. Enlightenment
i. Fallacies j. Equivocation k. Division l. Language
m. Relevance n. Hasty Generalization o. Imagination p. Knowledge
q. Opinion r. Perception s. Pragmatic t. Wisdom

_____ 1. The quality of having experience, knowledge and good judgement.

_____ 2. The faculty of forming new ideas or images or concepts of external objects not present to the
senses.
_____ 3. Facts, information and skills acquired through experience or education.
_____ 4. A story or a poem which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning.
_____ 5. A view or judgement formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
_____ 6. A person has to go through this process of recognizing before achieving full or complete
knowledge.
_____ 7. An activity that does not make us different from animals.
_____ 8. Truth based on the good or practical consequences of an idea.
_____ 9. The theory of truth of being logical and consistent.
_____ 10. Theory of truth that has to do with the correspondence of knowledge.
_____ 11. Plato’s allegory of the cave describes the process of the _______________.
_____ 12. Known as the errors in argumentation due to the errors in the use of linguistic means.
_____ 13. These are arguments or reasoning that seem to be true but actually false.
_____ 14. A fallacy in which a single term/word is used with two or more meaning in the same
argument.
_____ 15. The fallacy is caused when an attribute of a whole is attributed to the member of its parts.
_____ 16. Arises when an arguer fails to address directly the issues to be resolved, instead he used
other means to answer issues.
_____ 17. This argument resorts to the use of personal attacks due to the lack of argument.
_____ 18. The fallacy is committed when the conclusion offered is an oversimplification pf a very
complex issue.
_____ 19. This fallacy is committed when the conclusion offered is derived from few instances.
_____ 20. A specific kind of appeal to emotion in which someone tries to win support for an argument
or idea by exploiting his opponent’s feelings of guilt.

Test II. Fill in the blanks (Analogy)

1. Reason:Noesis :: Understanding:_______________
2. Belief:Pistis :: Imagination:________________
3. External Perception:five senses :: Internal Perception:_________________
4. Abstraction:building blocks of knowledge :: _________________:cement to put the concepts
together
5. Ambiguity:Amphiboly :: Double meaning:___________________
6. Baculum:Threat :: Verecundiam:____________________
 7. Tu Quoque:You did it too! :: ________________:pity

Test III. TRUE or False. Write T if the statement is true and F if the statement is false.
_______ 1. The Allegory of the Cave describes the process of the enlightenment of the soul.
_______ 2. The result of the process of abstraction requires maturity.
_______ 3. Knowledge has two levels, reason and belief.

Test IV.
Fallacies of Languages. E (Equivocation), A (Amphiboly), D (Division), C (Composition), Ac (Accident)
_____ 1. For those who have children and don’t know it, we have a nursery downstairs.
_____ 2. The team is great, so each player on the team is great.
_____ 3. Feathers are light. What is light cannot be dark. Therefore, feathers are bot dark.
_____ 4. Every machine is composed of small parts. Therefore, the whole machine is small.
_____ 5. Cutting people with knives is a crime. Surgeons cut people with knives. Therefore, surgeons are
criminals.
Fallacies of Relevance: DC (Dicto Simpliciter), HG (Hasty Generalization), AM(Ad Misericordiam), PC(Post
Hoc), FA (False Analogy),
_____ 1. All types of murder will become legal if we legalize voluntary euthanasia.
_____ 2. Your argument against eating meat is bad because you hypocritically eat meat.
_____ 3. If only we did not bring him along with us, we should have arrived earlier. Every time he is with
us, we always come late.
_____ 4. The things you learn in school don’t have anything to do with life.
_____ 5. A foreign language has been offered in some circular offering. Therefore, professors in colleges
and universities can speak a foreign language.
_____ 6. Student: Sir, I want to ask you please reconsider my grade in your course last semester. If you
don’t change my grade, I’m going to be dismissed from school. My mother is a widow who has enough
to worry about without this added burden.
_____ 7. Peter Bowling, winner of two Nobel Prizes. One for Peace and another one for Humanities
stated his daily medication of Vitamin C delayed the onset of his cancer by 20 years. Therefore, vitamin
C is effective in preventing cancer.
_____ 8. Jordan: Dad, why do I have to spend my summer at Jesus camp?
Dad: Because if you don’t, you will spend your entire summer in your room with nothing but your Bible.
_____ 9. Mother: You should stop smoking. It's harmful to your health.
Daughter: Why should I listen to you? You started smoking when you were 16!
_____ 10. To say humans are immortal is like saying a car can run forever.