Philosophy 310                   Reading Test                       2001-2002

Answer ALL of the following ten questions.  Answers of more than 125
words will receive NO CREDIT!!!  You need not answer in a complete
sentence. (This paragraph contains 30 words.)

All questions count equally. If you don't know the answer, fantasize
or guess - don't leave anything blank!   This a one hour exam.


1.   What faculty, according to Descartes, tells me that the ball of
	wax must be extended?  What faculty doesn't?

2.   What, according to Descartes, is the cause of human error?

3.   What does Descartes mean by "objective reality"?

4.   Why, according to Spinoza, can't God cause finite modes directly?  What
	*does* cause a finite mode?

5.   What, for Spinoza, is a substance?

6.   What, for Spinoza, is an attribute?  Name one.

7.   What principle, according to Leibniz, does God freely follow when he
	decides which substances to make actual?

8.   When, according to Leibniz, is a proposition true?

9.   What does Leibniz mean by "perception"?

10.  Give one of Locke's reasons for claiming there are no innate ideas.