Reason as a source of knowledge. One lesson at a time: listen to the episode, play the three games until the streak holds, then write to a real past-paper question in the time the exam gives you.
Specimen to 2026, by tariff. A dash means that year's question at that tariff was on another unit of the same section.
| Year | 3 marks | 5 marks | 5 marks | 12 marks | 25 marks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Specimen | — | — | — | Q04Explain how Descartes argues that we can gain a priori knowledge through intuition and deduction. | — |
| 2019 | — | — | Q03Explain Descartes' cogito as an example of an a priori intuition. | — | Q05Do we have innate knowledge? |
| 2020 | Q01What does Descartes mean by 'clear and distinct ideas'? | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | — | Q02Explain the view that the mind is a 'tabula rasa' at birth. | — | — | — |
| 2022 | — | — | — | — | Q05To what extent is Descartes' intuition and deduction thesis successful? |
| 2023 | — | — | Q03Explain Hume's Fork. | — | — |
| 2024 | — | — | — | Q04Explain Descartes' cogito and an empiricist response to it. | — |
| 2025 | — | — | — | Q04Explain Leibniz's innatism and one of Locke's arguments against this position. | — |
| 2026 | Q01What is an 'a priori deduction'? | Q02Explain Leibniz's argument for innatism based on necessary truths. | — | — | — |
Read your answer as the examiner will. Which of these would they write beside it?