Ch7 + Personal Experience, Testimony, And Expert | Test Bank - Think with Socrates 1e | Question Bank Herrick by Paul Herrick. DOCX document preview.
Test Bank, Chapter 7
Quiz questions set 1. True or False?
- Personal experience is always infallible.
- ^Expert testimony is always infallible.
- Only a tiny fraction of what we know about the world is learned on the basis of testimony.
- The book argues that testimony can never be trusted because people often lie.
- ^To qualify as an expert, one must have solid academic credentials.
- Expectation can cause us to see or hear something that is not really there.
- Memory is infallible.
- An expert can be mistaken.
- ^Thomas Reid is known as the “philosopher of common sense.”
- The book argues that personal experiences cannot be questioned.
Quiz questions set 2. Suggestions for short answer questions.
- Cite someone you believe to be an expert on a subject and explain what makes the person an expert.
- Cite someone widely believed to be an expert on a subject whom you believe does not deserve the title.
- Explain a situation in your life where you relied on the testimony of someone else to find the truth … and you were misled. What went wrong?
- Cite an item of your own knowledge that is justified on the basis of personal testimony.
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