Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The story of Phineas Gage showed that brain damage can affect the personality.
2. The form of materialism embraced by Thomas Hobbes was the view that only money or material things have value.
3. Another name for reductive materialism is identity theory.
4. Reductive materialism denies that mental substances exist, but admits the existence of mental events.


T 1. The story of Phineas Gage showed that brain damage can affect the personality.
F 2. The form of materialism embraced by Thomas Hobbes was the view that only money or material things have value.
T 3. Another name for reductive materialism is identity theory.
T 4. Reductive materialism denies that mental substances exist, but admits the existence of mental events.

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