Leviathan Quizzes

1 All thoughts are knowledge are in some way derived from____

Justice

the sovereign

Reason

Sense
2 The external world is nothing but a series of ____

illusions

motions

thoughts

essences
3 Decaying sense is ____

Motion

Reason

Memory/imagination

Aversion
4 What distinguishes man from animals?

Sense

A soul

Understanding/thought

Free will
5 Two types of thoughts are ____

natural and divine

rational and irrational

right and wrong

guided and unguided
6 A series of thoughts that seems disconnected is ____

experience

guided thought

random thought

unguided thought
7 The type of thinking that concerns ends and means is ____

guided thought

animal thought

unguided thought

instrumental thought
8 When we begin with a desire or fancy in mind and think of what means will bring about this desired end, this is an example of a(n) ____

unguided thought

natural thought

guided thought

instrumental thought
9 when we are in possession of some general means, and then think about what sorts of ends we can achieve with it, this is an example of a(n) ____

guided thought

instrumental thought

unguided thought

natural thought
10 We express thoughts externally to remember them and express them to others through ____

action

reason

speech

command
11 Which of the following identifies the four main uses of speech?

1) to remember cause and effect relations, 2) to show others our knowledge, 3) to express our will and desire to others, and 4) to differentiate us from non-rational animals

1) to remember cause and effect relations, 2) to show others our knowledge, 3) to express our will and desire to others, and 4) for sheer pleasure

1) to remember cause and effect relations, 2) to show others our knowledge, 3) to give names to the essences of objects, and 4) for sheer pleasure

1) to leave the state of nature, 2) to show others our knowledge, 3) to express our will and desire to others, and 4) for sheer pleasure
12 "The right ordering of names is our affirmations" is ____

truth

guided thought

speech

orderly thought
13 "The onely Science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow upon mankind" is ____

philosophy

arithmetic

geometry

physics
14 "Reckoning (that is, Adding and Subtracting) of the Consequences of generall names agreed upon" is ____

speech

thought

reason

truth
15 To settle disputes of definitions and first principles we appeal to ____

a common power

tradition

objective truth

the divine
16 The type of motion that can be thought of as essentially automatic bodily functions is ____

voluntary motion

natural motion

vital motion

guided motion
17 Motion that has specific ends in mind is ____

guided

voluntary

rational

vital
18 Voluntary motions are rooted in thought, and more basically, in ____

appetites and aversions

free will

reason

nothing, they are pre-determined
19 What is good and evil are defined ___

as the objects of our appetites and aversions

according to divine will

by the sovereign

according to objective truth
20 Natural wit is ___

acquired through experience

acquired through instruction

innate

determined by the sovereign
21 Acquired wit is ___

acquired through experience

innate

acquired through instruction

none of the above
22 The type of wit that "is grounded on the right use of Speech; and produceth the Sciences" is ____

divine wit

acquired wit

innate wit

natural wit
23 The differences in men's intellect arise from the differences in ____

power

worth

passions

innate capacities
24 The fundamental passion, that defined as man's "present means, to obtain some future Good" is ____

power

reason

fear

envy
25 The faculties of the body and mind, like strength, intellect, eloquence, etc, is ____

natural power

absolute power

instrumental power

guided power

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