Quiz 1 of 50 -- Definitions of Philosophical 'Isms' and Doctrines

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 theory that accepts role of pure chance 1 pancosmism
2 privatism
3 scientism
4 tychism
5 experientialism
2 belief that humans ought to be equal in rights and privileges 1 egalitarianism
2 monotheism
3 agathism
4 pansexualism
5 holism
3 the belief that chance governs all things 1 laicism
2 tritheism
3 functionalism
4 academicism
5 casualism
4 belief in local deities or spirits 1 modalism
2 panspermatism
3 functionalism
4 sacramentarianism
5 numenism
5 the belief that matter has existed eternally 1 pyrrhonism
2 solifidianism
3 determinism
4 eternalism
5 holism
6 belief in universal salvation 1 physicalism
2 collegialism
3 privatism
4 universalism
5 numenism
7 belief that matter and mind don't interact but relate 1 determinism
2 undulationism
3 phenomenalism
4 parallelism
5 libertarianism
8 doctrine that a simple and natural life is morally best 1 materialism
2 primitivism
3 conceptualism
4 solifidianism
5 fallibilism
9 doctrine of the imminent end of the world 1 regalism
2 skepticism
3 physicalism
4 apocalypticism
5 pansexualism
10 belief that priests are necessary mediators between God and mankind 1 pragmatism
2 intellectualism
3 sacerdotalism
4 agathism
5 indifferentism
Number Question Answer Your answer
11 doctrine that inanimate objects have human mentality 1 fallibilism
2 pessimism
3 subjectivism
4 psychomorphism
5 realism
12 belief that what ever is to happen is already fixed 1 pyrrhonism
2 predestinarianism
3 totemism
4 academicism
5 ubiquitarianism
13 belief that freedom derives solely from knowledge 1 acosmism
2 animism
3 egalitarianism
4 messianism
5 gnosticism
14 denial that the soul exists in space 1 geocentrism
2 nullibilism
3 pluralism
4 antilapsarianism
5 zoomorphism
15 belief in two gods 1 atomism
2 quietism
3 bitheism
4 historicism
5 laicism
16 belief in ghosts 1 privatism
2 triumphalism
3 eidolism
4 necessarianism
5 racism
17 belief in indifference to pleasure or pain 1 neovitalism
2 personalism
3 stoicism
4 parallelism
5 transcendentalism
18 theory that the material universe is all that exists 1 imagism
2 solipsism
3 modalism
4 sacerdotalism
5 pancosmism
19 belief that all phenomena are historically determined 1 historicism
2 totemism
3 introspectionism
4 pansexualism
5 omnism
20 belief in multiple deities 1 polytheism
2 omnism
3 fideism
4 pejorism
5 acosmism
Number Question Answer Your answer
21 belief that the members of the Trinity are separate gods 1 psychopannychism
2 introspectionism
3 anthropotheism
4 tritheism
5 thanatism
22 doctrine that knowledge of mind must derive from introspection 1 introspectionism
2 immanentism
3 nominalism
4 polytheism
5 quietism
23 belief in universal soul 1 psychism
2 mutualism
3 holism
4 voluntarism
5 mechanism
24 belief that sacraments have unusual properties 1 theocentrism
2 sacramentarianism
3 autotheism
4 solipsism
5 monism
25 theory that self-existence is the only certainty 1 fatalism
2 holobaptism
3 solipsism
4 synergism
5 kenotism
26 doctrine that knowledge comes from experience 1 experientialism
2 interactionism
3 monism
4 optimism
5 euhemerism
27 belief in evolution by chance variation 1 personalism
2 panpsychism
3 stoicism
4 fortuitism
5 monopsychism
28 theory that actions are determined by prior history; fatalism 1 necessarianism
2 dualism
3 experientialism
4 bullionism
5 psychism
29 doctrine of the monarch's supremacy in church affairs 1 perfectibilism
2 regalism
3 immanentism
4 holobaptism
5 tychism
30 belief that the stars influence human affairs 1 panspermatism
2 transcendentalism
3 siderism
4 syndicalism
5 necessarianism
Number Question Answer Your answer
31 belief that individuals have a single eternal soul 1 bitheism
2 monopsychism
3 fideism
4 siderism
5 scientism
32 belief that race is the primary determinant of human capacities 1 racism
2 hylozoism
3 scientism
4 fideism
5 polytheism
33 belief that Christ is everywhere 1 cosmotheism
2 ubiquitarianism
3 transcendentalism
4 entryism
5 gnosticism
34 doctrine that beauty is central to other moral principles 1 aestheticism
2 atomism
3 adevism
4 vitalism
5 agathism
35 belief in only one God 1 monotheism
2 sacramentarianism
3 siderism
4 organicism
5 bitheism
36 belief that individual interests and rights are paramount 1 individualism
2 reductionism
3 tritheism
4 tuism
5 interactionism
37 doctrine that nothing can be known 1 academicism
2 cosmotheism
3 representationalism
4 probabiliorism
5 hylomorphism
38 doctrine that the universe is essentially evil 1 pessimism
2 panpsychism
3 naturalism
4 tritheism
5 apocalypticism
39 belief that knowledge is always probable but never absolute 1 egalitarianism
2 probabilism
3 quietism
4 instrumentalism
5 organicism
40 doctrine of individual human responsibility in an unfathomable universe 1 historicism
2 henotheism
3 fatalism
4 existentialism
5 atheism
Number Question Answer Your answer
41 doctrine that mental processes are epiphenomena of brain activity 1 realism
2 epiphenomenalism
3 universalism
4 mutualism
5 positivism
42 doctrine that events are predetermined by preceding events or laws 1 determinism
2 representationalism
3 apocalypticism
4 positivism
5 terminism
43 attribution of soul to inanimate objects 1 transmigrationism
2 sacramentarianism
3 hylomorphism
4 primitivism
5 animism
44 belief that life is explainable by mechanical forces 1 undulationism
2 mechanism
3 naturalism
4 syndicalism
5 triumphalism
45 belief that human interests and mind are paramount 1 parallelism
2 solipsism
3 finalism
4 humanism
5 historicism
46 total or radical skepticism 1 panegoism
2 pyrrhonism
3 interactionism
4 paedobaptism
5 pluralism
47 belief that phenomena are the only realities 1 emotivism
2 phenomenalism
3 aestheticism
4 triumphalism
5 eternalism
48 doctrine that the pursuit of self-interest is the highest good 1 sacerdotalism
2 egoism
3 racism
4 numenism
5 henotheism
49 belief that reality consists of several kinds or entities 1 hylicism
2 bonism
3 conceptualism
4 pluralism
5 phenomenalism
50 belief that the universe consists of small indivisible particles 1 atomism
2 autosoterism
3 undulationism
4 kenotism
5 henism
Number Question Answer Your answer
51 belief in the dual nature of Christ 1 racism
2 entryism
3 solifidianism
4 psychopannychism
5 diphysitism
52 doctrine emphasising utility and function 1 substantialism
2 prescriptivism
3 polytheism
4 autotheism
5 functionalism
53 doctrine that the universe is controlled by one good and one evil force 1 catastrophism
2 dualism
3 eternalism
4 adoptionism
5 fatalism
54 identification of oneself with God 1 predestinarianism
2 tuism
3 collectivism
4 pancosmism
5 egotheism
55 disbelief in existence of eternal universe distinct from God 1 individualism
2 acosmism
3 antilapsarianism
4 omnism
5 subjectivism
56 solipsism 1 libertarianism
2 historicism
3 tuism
4 panegoism
5 psychomorphism
57 view that moral conduct consists in observance of laws 1 monopsychism
2 intuitionism
3 nomism
4 individualism
5 henism
58 doctrine that naming of things defines reality 1 psychism
2 nominalism
3 dualism
4 probabilism
5 diphysitism
59 belief in ultimate triumph of good despite evil means 1 meliorism
2 introspectionism
3 experientialism
4 agathism
5 humanism
60 the belief the world tends to become better 1 animism
2 psilanthropism
3 panspermatism
4 regalism
5 meliorism
Number Question Answer Your answer
61 explanation of mythology as growing out of history 1 bitheism
2 existentialism
3 representationalism
4 perfectibilism
5 euhemerism
62 theory that total material explanation is impossible 1 illusionism
2 zoomorphism
3 eidolism
4 neovitalism
5 fideism
63 belief that nothing is real except the soul or spirit 1 skepticism
2 spiritualism
3 euhemerism
4 ditheletism
5 subjectivism
64 doctrine of broad liberality in religious belief and conduct 1 latitudinarianism
2 pyrrhonism
3 gnosticism
4 zoomorphism
5 pansexualism
65 doctrine that all knowledge is subjective 1 apocalypticism
2 optimism
3 autotheism
4 eidolism
5 subjectivism
66 belief that there is a real existence underlying phenomena 1 panegoism
2 substantialism
3 egalitarianism
4 triumphalism
5 eternalism
67 doctrine of communal control of means of production 1 apocalypticism
2 collectivism
3 physicalism
4 eidolism
5 reductionism
68 belief that the universe is purely material 1 omnism
2 predestinarianism
3 hylotheism
4 malism
5 siderism
69 theory that light consists of waves 1 geocentrism
2 meliorism
3 perfectionism
4 undulationism
5 panentheism
70 doctrine that the actions of a self are determined by itself 1 millenarianism
2 monophysitism
3 eternalism
4 psychopannychism
5 self-determinism
Number Question Answer Your answer
71 the belief that all religions are equally valid 1 indifferentism
2 privatism
3 interactionism
4 fatalism
5 subjectivism
72 belief that when in doubt one must choose most likely answer 1 geocentrism
2 psychomorphism
3 totemism
4 probabiliorism
5 substantialism
73 belief that a group has a special kinship with an object or animal 1 totemism
2 tritheism
3 phenomenalism
4 egoism
5 pejorism
74 belief that the world can be explained as aspect of the mind 1 totemism
2 animism
3 egoism
4 optimism
5 mentalism
75 doctrine that humans capable of becoming perfect 1 experientialism
2 theism
3 monism
4 existentialism
5 perfectibilism
76 belief in the existence of God without special revelation 1 laicism
2 theism
3 egoism
4 meliorism
5 pragmatism
77 denial of doctrine of the fall of humanity 1 naturalism
2 physitheism
3 theocentrism
4 antilapsarianism
5 catabaptism
78 belief that an end has or can be reached 1 finalism
2 immanentism
3 pessimism
4 tychism
5 adamitism
79 belief that humans and animals share vital life energy 1 panzoism
2 terminism
3 emotivism
4 materialism
5 tutiorism
80 doctrine that all matter is endowed with life 1 modalism
2 parallelism
3 acosmism
4 hylozoism
5 monophysitism
Number Question Answer Your answer
81 belief that soul passes into other body at death 1 racism
2 transmigrationism
3 panzoism
4 fideism
5 quietism
82 belief in God but rejection of religion 1 monadism
2 deism
3 atheism
4 nomism
5 tritheism
83 the doctrine that empirical knowledge is uncertain 1 fallibilism
2 illusionism
3 fatalism
4 skepticism
5 regalism
84 belief in one tribal god, but not as the only god 1 psychotheism
2 representationalism
3 henotheism
4 naturalism
5 bitheism
85 belief in origin of life from extraterrestrial germs 1 panspermatism
2 primitivism
3 antinomianism
4 diphysitism
5 pansexualism
86 belief in a single messiah or saviour 1 messianism
2 collegialism
3 quietism
4 hylicism
5 immoralism
87 doctrine that we live in an irrational universe 1 absurdism
2 monergism
3 legalism
4 skepticism
5 fortuitism
88 belief that one is God incarnate or that one is Christ 1 monism
2 autotheism
3 psychomorphism
4 bonism
5 adoptionism
89 doctrine that one should take the safer moral course 1 adamitism
2 noumenalism
3 sacramentarianism
4 atomism
5 tutiorism
90 belief in rapid geological and biological change 1 gradualism
2 conceptualism
3 catastrophism
4 stoicism
5 pessimism
Number Question Answer Your answer
91 belief that God is central fact of existence 1 sacramentarianism
2 monadism
3 theocentrism
4 historicism
5 ditheletism
92 belief in two equal gods, one good and one evil 1 ditheism
2 adamitism
3 solipsism
4 naturalism
5 tutiorism
93 doctrine that there is only one kind of existence 1 probabilism
2 solipsism
3 psychotheism
4 optimism
5 henism
94 denial of all reality; extreme scepticism 1 nihilism
2 utilitarianism
3 autotheism
4 latitudinarianism
5 siderism
95 materialism 1 interactionism
2 immanentism
3 somatism
4 theopantism
5 nihilism
96 doctrine of infant baptism 1 paedobaptism
2 neonomianism
3 theopantism
4 thanatism
5 syndicalism
97 belief that Earth is the centre of the universe 1 geocentrism
2 nominalism
3 solipsism
4 sensationalism
5 quietism
98 the doctrine that there is no material substance 1 monopsychism
2 psychism
3 racism
4 latitudinarianism
5 immaterialism
99 belief that there is no God 1 pancosmism
2 pragmatism
3 neovitalism
4 atheism
5 solarism
100 nakedness for religious reasons 1 messianism
2 primitivism
3 egotheism
4 adamitism
5 diphysitism
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