Philosophy Final- Straighterline Already Graded A+ What is the cause of change for Empedocles? - Answer Love and strife.Three of Plato's more enlightening and well-known dialogs are: - Answer Apology, Republic and Meno What is a syllogism? - Answer A kind of inference What did Aristotle say about all change? - Answer It is a movement from potentiality to actuality If you want to say what a thing is, which of Aristotle's four causes must you provide?
- Answer The formal cause.
What fallacy is it when an argument attacks the person rather than the person's beliefs? - Answer Argumentum ad Hominem Where do the Forms exist, according to Plato? - Answer In a separate, immaterial realm.What did Anaxagoras do? - Answer He introduced the matter\mind distinction to philosophy.Plato had three famous theories: - Answer The Theory of Knowledge, The Theory of Love and Becoming, The Theory of Forms.What did the Atomists do? - Answer They distinguished between atomic properties and relational properties.What is a thing, according to Aristotle? - Answer A specific form in a particular hunk of matter.What fallacy is it when an argument assumes only two options when in fact there are more? - Answer False dilemma When the Delphi Oracle pronounced Socrates to be the wisest of people, Socrates thought the pronouncement referred to the fact that he: - Answer was aware of his own ignorance.Which is a common characteristic of philosophical questions? - Answer They involve fundamental concepts that are unavoidable by the thoughtful person.What is reality according to a follower of Parmenides? - Answer One and unchanging.What does the branch of philosophy called epistemology study? - Answer Knowledge 1 / 2
Philosophy Final- Straighterline Already Graded A+ According to Theano, what did Pythagoras claim? - Answer Everything is in accordance with number.What are Thales, Anaximenes and Anaximander collectively known as? - Answer The Milesians Which of the following is not one of the ten basic categories Aristotle used to describe the ways in which humans think about things? - Answer Weight Aristotle's primary area of interest was - Answer metaphysics.Which of the following is a common myth about philosophy? - Answer Philosophical questions are simply semantic disputes in which no one opinion is any better or worse than another is.Which is the branch of philosophy that studies issues concerning art and beauty? - Answer Aesthetics What must be the case for an argument to succeed with a rational person? - Answer The premises must be acceptable and they must logically support the conclusion.How are the Forms apprehended, according to Plato? - Answer By reason.
Aristotle's works include all of the following except: - Answer Confessions
Which argument did St. Augustine use to refute total Academic skepticism? - Answer When we are in doubt we can at least know that we exist as a doubter.Why can't we have cause and effect knowledge, according to Hume? - Answer We can never observe a necessary connection between events.What is the self, according to Hume? - Answer A sequence of perceptions.What did John Locke believe about perception? - Answer Knowledge of the external world is based on the fact that some of the ideas we get through sense impressions represent the way things actually are in the external world What was clarity and distinctness a mark of, for Rene Descartes? - Answer Truth What do Pyrrhonic skeptics maintain? - Answer People should suspend judgment about all things.Why doesn't Kant think that we can have knowledge of the things-in-themselves (das ding-an-sich)? - Answer Because the organizing principles of the mind do not apply to them.What did Benedict Spinoza think a person is? - Answer A mode of God/Nature.
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