pyq/2025/philosophy-optional-i/4

(a) How is Husserl's account of “I think” different from that of Descartes? Critically discuss. (20 marks)

(b) “We can affirm the truth of any sentence in our total system, in the face of whatever experience, just so long as we are prepared to make adjustments elsewhere.” Discuss this statement in the light of Quine's ‘Two Dogmas of Empiricism’. (15 marks)

(c) Explain Berkeley's doctrine of nominalism and his refutation of Abstract ideas. (15 marks)