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Straighterline Philosophy Final Exam| 100
QUESTIONS| WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Question 1: What is the cause of change for Empedocles?
CORRECT ANSWER : Love and strife.
Question 2: Three of Plato's more enlightening and well-known
dialogs are:
CORRECT ANSWER : Apology, Republic and Meno
Question 3: What is a syllogism?
CORRECT ANSWER : A kind of inference
Question 4: What did Aristotle say about all change?
CORRECT ANSWER : It is a movement from potentiality to
actuality
Question 5: If you want to say what a thing is, which of
Aristotle's four causes must you provide?
CORRECT ANSWER : The formal cause.
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Question 6: What fallacy is it when an argument attacks the
person rather than the person's beliefs?
CORRECT ANSWER : Argumentum ad Hominem
Question 7: Where do the Forms exist, according to Plato?
CORRECT ANSWER : In a separate, immaterial realm.
Question 8: What did Anaxagoras do?
CORRECT ANSWER : He introduced the matter\mind
distinction to philosophy.
Question 9: Plato had three famous theories:
CORRECT ANSWER : The Theory of Knowledge, The Theory
of Love and Becoming, The Theory of Forms.
Question 10: What did the Atomists do?
CORRECT ANSWER : They distinguished between atomic
properties and relational properties.
Question 11: What is a thing, according to Aristotle?
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CORRECT ANSWER : A specific form in a particular hunk of
matter.
Question 12: What fallacy is it when an argument assumes only
two options when in fact there are more?
CORRECT ANSWER : False dilemma
Question 13: When the Delphi Oracle pronounced Socrates to be
the wisest of people, Socrates thought the pronouncement
referred to the fact that he:
CORRECT ANSWER : was aware of his own ignorance.
Question 14: Which is a common characteristic of philosophical
questions?
CORRECT ANSWER : They involve fundamental concepts that
are unavoidable by the thoughtful person.
Question 15: What is reality according to a follower of
Parmenides?
CORRECT ANSWER : One and unchanging.
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Question 16: What does the branch of philosophy called
epistemology study?
CORRECT ANSWER : Knowledge
Question 17: According to Theano, what did Pythagoras claim?
CORRECT ANSWER : Everything is in accordance with
number.
Question 18: What are Thales, Anaximenes and Anaximander
collectively known as?
CORRECT ANSWER : The Milesians
Question 19: Which of the following is not one of the ten basic
categories Aristotle used to describe the ways in which humans think about things?