Featured Article Quiz #234
Dualism
#1 In philosophy, dualism is the idea that reality is fundamentally divided into two separate principles or types. Which option best matches this?
Reality is explained by one unified principle with no basic split.
Reality is fundamentally split into two separate principles or types.
Reality allows more than two fundamental principles.
#2 Mind–body dualism says that mind and body are fundamentally different. What does it claim about mental events?
Mental events like thoughts and emotions are nonphysical and exist alongside physical things.
Mental events are identical to physical brain states with no difference.
Mental events do not exist; only physical objects exist.
#3 In mind–body dualism, what does interactionism say about how mind and body affect each other?
It claims there is only one-way influence: body affects mind, but mind has no effect.
It claims both tracks run in sync with no interaction at all.
It claims influence goes both ways: bodily events can cause mental events and mental events can cause bodily events.