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For 100 kudos: Who famously declared, I think therefore I am?

Descartes
Dustcart
Socrates
Little Jimmy Osmond

For 200 kudos: With which philosophical doctrine is J.S. Mill most associated?

Determinism
Positivism
Botulism
Utilitarianism

For 300 kudos: Which of these is not a work by Plato?

The Republic
Lysis
Symposium
Ulysses

For 500 kudos: According to Socrates, what is not worth living?

the unexamined life
life as we know it
life on Mars
a dog's life

For 1000 kudos: How many philosophers does it take to change a light bulb?

Why?
Philosophy and electricity don't mix
Unacceptable premise
All of the above

For 2000 kudos: What or who is an ideal form?

God
The perfect representation of an idea
Plato's concept of a type which exists independently of whether or not there are things of that type
A questionnaire for philosophers

For 4000 kudos: What is the bundle theory?

a collection of theories about existence
a concept of the self as a collection of perceptions
the idea that the soul is a mixed bag of emotions
a theory associated with Jeremy Bundle

For 8000 kudos: Which of these is not one of the eight basic trigrams of I Ching?

Heaven
Hell
Fire
Water

For 16000 kudos: Who wrote Being and Time?

Martin Heidegger
Jean-Paul Sartre
Friedreich Nietzsche
Leonard Nimoy

For 32000 kudos: What is Ocham's razor?

His sharp wit
His shaving implement
His theory that life is balanced on a razor's edge between sanity and madness
His bias towards simplicity in theory construction

For 64000 kudos: Which of these is a formal moral law in Kantian ethics?

flaccid designator
arthritis in the thigh
categorical imperative
transcendental unity of apperception

For 125000 kudos: Which of these disciplines is concerned with the theory of knowledge?

Phenomenology
Epistemology
Metaphysics
Aesthetics

For 250000 kudos: Who stated there is no room for theories in philosophy?

Wittgenstein
Schopenhauer
Marx
Derrida

For 500000 kudos: Which of these animals is often cited in discussions concerning free will and determinism?

Buridan's ass
Berkeley's bear
Derrida's donkey
Marx's mule

This is it, this is the big one. For 1000000 kudos:
What is the meaning of life?

what we choose it to mean
the word of God
to propagate the species
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