Year 12 Michaelmas (1) Knowledge Check

Which of the following would qualify as a reliable belief forming mechanism?

• Guessing

• Reading memes on social media

• Witnessing an event with clear eyesight.

• Consulting fortune tellers.

Gettier's criticism of the JTB approach claimed what?

• Not all 3 conditions are individually necessary.

• The 3 conditions are not always jointly sufficient.

• All 3 conditions are wrong.

• All propositions are a matter of opinion rather than truth.

What is a subject in epistemology?

• A lesson in school

• An inanimate object

• God

• A person who makes a proposition.

Acquaintance knowledge is what?

• Knowledge of

• Knowledge that

• Knowledge how

• Knowledge for

What is a false lemma?

• A faulty sub-step / assumption that the main justification relies on.

• A lucky true belief

• An irrelevant criticism

• A feature of infallibilism

Which term means the same as infallible?

• Error prone

• Indubitable

• Highly probable

• Unjustified

Which of the following would count as an infallible proposition?

• God created the world

• Some bachelors are married

• All bachelors are unmarried

• There will never be another pandemic as bad as Covid-19

What would reliabilism conclude in the broken clock Gettier case?

• The belief in the proposition was never actually formed in a reliable way.

• RTB would accuse clocks as being an unreliable source for telling the time.

• The proposition was never true in the first place.

• RTB would advise subjects to guess the time in future.

The paradox of the stone is a logical challenge to which of God's attributes?

• Omniscience

• Benevolence

• Eternity

• Omnipotence

The Euthyphro Dilemma raises what question?

• Does God hate humans?

• Is moral goodness entirely dependent on God?

• Can an imperfect God still be good?

• Is human goodness superior to Divine goodness?