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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Part 3, Of the Other Virtues and Vices.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hume use his razor theory to devalue?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Reason.
(c) Abstract concepts.
(d) The imagination.

2. What does Hume say are the only two things we have in our minds?
(a) Love and hate.
(b) Vice and virtues.
(c) Judgements and non-judgements.
(d) Ideas and impressions.

3. What can one not derive an ought from?
(a) An and.
(b) An is.
(c) A what.
(d) A not.

4. Why does Hume think humans, unlike other animals, cannot satisfy their needs from nature alone?
(a) They have more desires than they have means to meet them.
(b) They have to live in an isolated space.
(c) They can't live in a primitive state.
(d) They have an active mind and need to discover new things.

5. Hume say the human mind resolves itself into what distinct kinds ?
(a) Love and hate.
(b) Impressions and ideas.
(c) Pride and prejudice.
(d) Images and words.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which moral misdeed does Hume use as an example?

2. Why can pride and humility not be reduced to other passions?

3. What does Hume say none of his three motives of human nature are sufficient enough to produce?

4. Why does Hume say that neither ideas nor impressions are infinitely divisible?

5. From where does a human's substantive knowledge come?

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