Straighterline Philosophy exam 1 With Correct Answers.What does Aristotle mean by the efficient cause of a thing? - Answer Where it came from.Which is a theme common to all the pre-Socratics? - Answer The experienced world is a manifestation of a more fundamental underlying reality.What did the Atomists do? - Answer They distinguished between atomic properties and relational properties.How are the Forms apprehended, according to Plato? - Answer By reason.What did Aristotle say about all change? - Answer It is a movement from potentiality to actuality.Which of the following branches of philosophy does not involve questions related to values? - Answer Metaphysics.What is a thing, according to Aristotle? - Answer A specific form in a particular hunk of matter.What does the branch of philosophy called epistemology study? - Answer Knowledge.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.What fallacy is it when an argument attacks the person rather than the person's beliefs? - Answer Argumentum ad Hominem What was the essence of reality for Heraclitus? - Answer Change What is the cause of change for Empedocles? - Answer Love and strife Who is a philosopher, in the original sense of the world? - Answer A lover and pursuer of wisdom, regardless of the subject matter.Which is a common characteristic of philosophical questions? - Answer They involve fundamental concepts that are unavoidable by the thoughtful person.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 What is reality according to a follower of Parmenides? - Answer One and unchanging.Aristotle's primary area of interest was: - Answer Metaphysics.
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